Rita Zohar

Acting

Born January 10, 1943

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). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).

Filmography

• 2025Eleanor the Great — Bessie
• Grotesquerie — Mumbling Hospital Patient
• High Potential — Miriam Weisman
• 2024Unspoken — Mrs. Helfgott
• Hunters — Esther Schwartzman
• Little America
• 2019Tree #3 — Nurit
• 2011Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats — Yolanda Moskowitz
• 2010Porcelain Unicorn — Older Woman
• Monk — Mrs. Zlatavich
• 1997A Call to Remember — Renya Weiss
• 1997Bella Mafia — Sister Giuliana
• 7th Heaven — Charlotte Kerjesz
• 1996The Man Who Captured Eichmann — Peter's Mother
• JAG — Mrs. Minas
• 1995Waterworld — Atoller
• ER — Patient's Wife
• 1993The Disappearance of Christina — Anna
• 1992Final Analysis — Dr. Grusin
• 1990The Last Love of Laura Adler — Laura
• 1989From the Dead of Night — Elena
• 1988Lady in White — Mrs. Agnes Cilak
• 1987Roses Are for the Rich — Daisy
• Roses Are for the Rich — Daisy
• 1987Young Harry Houdini — Mrs. Weiss
• 1986The Deliberate Stranger — Eleanor Rose
• The Deliberate Stranger — Eleanor Rose
• 1985The Execution
• 1983Daniel — Grandmother
• St. Elsewhere — Vera Anya