Gila Almagor
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Gila Almagor Agmon (Template:Langx; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel, she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre".
BiographyEdit
Template:Unreliable sourcesGila Alexandrowitz (Almagor) was born in Petah Tikva<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to Jewish emigrant parents from Europe.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her German-Jewish<ref name=":1" /> father Max Alexandrowitz<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" /> was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" /> in Haifa<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" /> four months before she was born.<ref>First lady of Israeli stage and screen, Haaretz</ref> Her mother Chaya was from a Polish Orthodox Jewish family.<ref name=":1" /> Almagor grew up caring for her mother, who was slowly losing her sanity after realising that all her family in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web
}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When her mother was institutionalized in 1954, Almagor was sent to Hadassim youth village.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" />
Two years later, she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near Habima Theatre, and applied to acting school. Although she was underage, she was accepted.<ref name="About Gila Almagor">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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At the age of 17, Almagor debuted in Habima's production of The Skin of Our Teeth.<ref name="israelispeakers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her autobiographical books Summer of Aviya and Under the Domim Tree were both made into films, with Almagor playing her own mother. She was married to Yaakov Agmon, former director of the Habima Theatre, until his death in 2020.<ref name="israelispeakers" /> They have two children.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" />
Stage, film and televisionEdit
Almagor has played leading roles in many plays, among them Anne Frank, Jeanne d'Arc, The Crucible, Three Sisters, The Bride and the Butterfly Hunt, They Were All My Children, and Medea. She has appeared in over 50 films, including Siege, Queen of the Road, The House on Chelouche Street, Hide and Seek, El Dorado, Life According to Agfa and The Summer of Aviya.<ref name="About Gila Almagor"/>
Almagor starred as the mother of Avner, the main character in the 2005 film Munich. She also appears in The Debt, about a former Mossad agent who comes back to kill an escaped Nazi doctor. In 2008, she played the role of Lolah Baum in the 100-episode serial Dani Hollywood, broadcast on the Yes satellite network. In 2005, Almagor played a therapist in the award-winning Israeli television series BeTipul.
Charity work and public serviceEdit
Almagor founded the Gila Almagor Wish Fund, a charity for sick children, and co-founded AMI – the Israeli Artist Association. She currently serves as chair of cultural activities in the City Council of Tel Aviv and many other boards to promote the arts for children and in efforts to make international exchange between the Israeli performing arts world and abroad.<ref>Gila Almagor, Biography. Omanoot via FacebookTemplate:Unreliable source?</ref>
Awards and critical acclaimEdit
Almagor has received 10 Kinor David awards for her work in film and theater.
She received the Life Achievement Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 1996, a Life Achievement Award from the Israeli Academy of Cinema in 1997. For Summer of Aviya, she got the Silver Bear award for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival and the 1988 Silver Menorah Award for best actress.
In 1995, Almagor received a National Jewish Book Award for Under the Domin Tree.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1993, she was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.<ref name="Moscow1993">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1996, she was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Berlinale">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1990, she was chosen Actress of the Decade by Yediot Ahronoth and the Israel Film Institute.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Jewish Women" /> In 2004, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for cinema.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2005, she received a Hans Christian Andersen Ambassadorship. In 2007, she was awarded the Liberitas Film Festival Prize for Lifetime Achievement (Croatia). In 2009, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University awarded her an honorary doctorate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FilmographyEdit
- El Dorado (1963), as Margo
- Sallah Shabati (1964), as Batsheva Ha'Sosialit (social worker)
- Trunk to Cairo (1965), as Yasmin
- The House on Chelouche Street (1973), as Clara
- The Rose Garden (1989), as Ruth
- Life According to Agfa (1993), as Daliah
- Munich (2005), as Avner's Mother
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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