Rita Zohar
Acting • Born 1943-01-10
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). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
Filmography
29 credits
Final Analysis
Movie • 1992
Dr. Grusin
Tree #3
Movie • 2019
Nurit
The Last Love of Laura Adler
Movie • 1990
Laura
Porcelain Unicorn
Movie • 2010
Older Woman
The Deliberate Stranger
Movie • 1986
Eleanor Rose
The Disappearance of Christina
Movie • 1993
Anna
Waterworld
Movie • 1995
Atoller
A Call to Remember
Movie • 1997
Renya Weiss
Roses Are for the Rich
Movie • 1987
Daisy
Unspoken
Movie • 2024
Mrs. Helfgott
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Movie • 1996
Peter's Mother
From the Dead of Night
Movie • 1989
Elena
Lady in White
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Agnes Cilak
The Execution
Movie • 1985
Daniel
Movie • 1983
Grandmother
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
Movie • 2011
Yolanda Moskowitz
Young Harry Houdini
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Weiss
Eleanor the Great
Movie • 2025
Bessie
Bella Mafia
Movie • 1997
Sister Giuliana
JAG
TV • 1995
Mrs. Minas
Monk
TV • 2002
Mrs. Zlatavich
Hunters
TV • 2020
Esther Schwartzman
Little America
TV • 2020
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Charlotte Kerjesz
ER
TV • 1994
Patient's Wife
Grotesquerie
TV • 2024
Mumbling Hospital Patient
Roses Are for the Rich
TV • 1987
Daisy
High Potential
TV • 2024
Miriam Weisman
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Vera Anya