Rita Zohar
Born: 1943-01-10
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Eleanor the Great as Bessie
2024
- High Potential as Miriam Weisman
- Grotesquerie as Mumbling Hospital Patient
- Unspoken as Mrs. Helfgott
2020
- Hunters as Esther Schwartzman
- Little America
2019
- Tree #3 as Nurit
2011
- Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats as Yolanda Moskowitz
2010
- Porcelain Unicorn as Older Woman
2002
- Monk as Mrs. Zlatavich
1997
- Bella Mafia as Sister Giuliana
- A Call to Remember as Renya Weiss
1996
- 7th Heaven as Charlotte Kerjesz
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Peter's Mother
1995
- JAG as Mrs. Minas
- Waterworld as Atoller
1994
- ER as Patient's Wife
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
- Young Harry Houdini as Mrs. Weiss
- Roses Are for the Rich as Daisy
1986
- The Deliberate Stranger as Eleanor Rose
1985
1983
- Daniel as Grandmother
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Vera Anya