Rita Zohar
19 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 10, 1943 (age 83)
Biography
Rita Zohar is an actress with a career spanning film, television, and theater. She was born during World War II in a concentration camp in Balta (then part of the Kingdom of Romania).
She emigrated to Israel with her mother in the 1950s and began acting at the Cameri Theatre, performing in Yiddish. In the 1980s she moved to the United States and appeared on television series including Quincy M.E., St. Elsewhere, and Cagney & Lacey. Her film credits from that period include Daniel (1983), Amadeus (1984), The Deliberate Stranger (1986), and Lady in White (1988). She won the Israeli Film Academy’s Best Actress award for Laura Adler’s Last Love Affair (1990).
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Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Rita Zohar: movies and TV shows
Acting (30)
- 2025 Eleanor the Great
as Bessie
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024 Unspoken
as Mrs. Helfgott
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019 Tree #3
as Nurit
- 2011 Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
as Yolanda Moskowitz
- 2010 Porcelain Unicorn
as Older Woman
- 2002
- 1997 Bella Mafia
as Sister Giuliana
- 1997 A Call to Remember
as Renya Weiss
- 1996 The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Peter's Mother
- 1996
- 1995
- 1995 Waterworld
as Atoller
- 1994
- 1993 The Disappearance of Christina
as Anna
- 1992 Final Analysis
as Dr. Grusin
- 1990 The Last Love of Laura Adler
as Laura
- 1989 From the Dead of Night
as Elena
- 1988 Lady in White
as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
- 1987 Roses Are for the Rich
as Daisy
- 1987
- 1987 Young Harry Houdini
as Mrs. Weiss
- 1986 The Deliberate Stranger
as Eleanor Rose
- 1986
- 1985
- 1983 Daniel
as Grandmother
- 1982