Mili Avital
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| Mili Avital | |
| Born | March 30, 1972 Jerusalem, Israel |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Randolph (2004-Present) |
Mili Avital (Hebrew: מילי אביטל; born 30 March 1972) is an Israeli actress. Avital built a successful stage and film career in Israel, winning the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 and nominated for Best Actress in 1994.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Avital was born in Jerusalem, Israel, the daughter of graphic designers Noni and Iko Avital.[1] She was raised in Tel Aviv and Ra'anana. She attended the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Giva’atayim. In 1994 she moved to New York. She has dated actor David Schwimmer.[2] As of 2006, she and her husband, screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Life of David Gale), live in New York City with their son, Benjamin Hillel Randolph, who was born October 28, 2007.
[edit] American film career
As one of the most highly regarded actresses in her native Israel, Avital has created international success with her diverse starring roles in film, television and theater. Beginning her career at the age of 17, in the Cameri Theater in Tel-Aviv, she went on to win the 1992 Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Arriving in New York in 1994, she was immediately cast as the female lead in Stargate, for which she received a Sci-fi Universe award. She has appeared in such American films as Dead Man, Kissing a Fool, Polish Wedding, The Human Stain and When Do We Eat?
Her television work includes portraying Scheherazade in the Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries Arabian Nights, Jon Avnet’s Uprising and After the Storm. Her recent work in Israel includes Ahava Colombianit (Colombian Love) and Noodle, for which she received the 2007 Israel’s Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress, an Israeli Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and Israel’s Person of the Year nomination. She starred as Cordelia in King Lear at the Electric Lodge (Venice, California) in 2006.[3] Her directorial debut, the short documentary I Think Myself I am All the Time Younger, which she also produced,[4] received its world premiere at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
[edit] Filmography
- Noodle (2007)
- When Do We Eat? (2005)
- Ahava Colombianit (2004)
- The Human Stain (2003)
- Uprising (2001)
- After the Storm (2001)
- Preston Tylk (2000)
- Arabian Nights (2000)
- The Young Girl and the Monsoon (1999)
- Kissing a Fool (1998)
- Animals and the Tollkeeper (1998)
- Polish Wedding (1998)
- The End of Violence (1997)
- Minotaur (1997)
- Invasion of Privacy (1996)
- Dead Man (1995)
- Stargate (1994)
- Me'ever Layam (1992)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/93/Mili-Avital.html
- ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (2001-11-30). "From Tel Aviv to Tinseltown". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7793. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
- ^ Mili Avital - Other works
- ^ Mili Avital
