Rita Zohar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 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). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
Known For
Filmography
Eleanor the Great
Movie · as Bessie
Unspoken
Movie · as Mrs. Helfgott
Grotesquerie
TV · as Mumbling Hospital Patient · 1 ep
High Potential
TV · as Miriam Weisman · 2 eps
Hunters
TV · as Esther Schwartzman · 1 ep
Little America
TV · 1 ep
Tree #3
Movie · as Nurit
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
Movie · as Yolanda Moskowitz
Porcelain Unicorn
Movie · as Older Woman
Monk
TV · as Mrs. Zlatavich · 1 ep
A Call to Remember
Movie · as Renya Weiss
Bella Mafia
Movie · as Sister Giuliana
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Movie · as Peter's Mother
7th Heaven
TV · as Charlotte Kerjesz · 1 ep
Waterworld
Movie · as Atoller
JAG
TV · as Mrs. Minas · 1 ep
ER
TV · as Patient's Wife · 1 ep
The Disappearance of Christina
Movie · as Anna
Final Analysis
Movie · as Dr. Grusin
The Last Love of Laura Adler
Movie · as Laura
From the Dead of Night
Movie · as Elena
Lady in White
Movie · as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
Roses Are for the Rich
Movie · as Daisy
Young Harry Houdini
Movie · as Mrs. Weiss
Roses Are for the Rich
TV · as Daisy · 2 eps
The Deliberate Stranger
Movie · as Eleanor Rose
The Deliberate Stranger
TV · as Eleanor Rose · 2 eps
The Execution
Movie
Daniel
Movie · as Grandmother
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Vera Anya · 2 eps