Rita Zohar

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Rita Zohar

Acting 83 January 10, 1943

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 Roman…

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Waterworld

Waterworld

6.2 1995 Movie
Monk

Monk

7.9 2002 TV Show
JAG

JAG

7.2 1995 TV Show
ER

ER

7.8 1994 TV Show
High Potential

High Potential

8.2 2024 TV Show
Hunters

Hunters

7.1 2020 TV Show
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere

5.7 1982 TV Show
7th Heaven

7th Heaven

6.5 1996 TV Show
Grotesquerie

Grotesquerie

7.3 2024 TV Show
Final Analysis

Final Analysis

5.8 1992 Movie
Little America

Little America

6.6 2020 TV Show
Lady in White

Lady in White

6.1 1988 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Eleanor the Great

    Movie Bessie

  2. 2024
    Grotesquerie

    TV show Mumbling Hospital Patient

  3. 2024
    High Potential

    TV show Miriam Weisman

  4. 2024
    Unspoken

    Movie Mrs. Helfgott

  5. 2020
    Hunters

    TV show Esther Schwartzman

  6. 2020
    Little America

    TV show

  7. 2019
    Tree #3

    Movie Nurit

  8. 2011
    Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats

    Movie Yolanda Moskowitz

  9. 2010
    Porcelain Unicorn

    Movie Older Woman

  10. 2002
    Monk

    TV show Mrs. Zlatavich

  11. 1997
    Bella Mafia

    Movie Sister Giuliana

  12. 1997
    A Call to Remember

    Movie Renya Weiss

  13. 1996
    The Man Who Captured Eichmann

    Movie Peter's Mother

  14. 1996
    7th Heaven

    TV show Charlotte Kerjesz

  15. 1995
    JAG

    TV show Mrs. Minas

  16. 1995
    Waterworld

    Movie Atoller

More credits
  1. 1994
    ER

    TV show Patient's Wife

  2. 1993
    The Disappearance of Christina

    Movie Anna

  3. 1992
    Final Analysis

    Movie Dr. Grusin

  4. 1990
    The Last Love of Laura Adler

    Movie Laura

  5. 1989
    From the Dead of Night

    Movie Elena

  6. 1988
    Lady in White

    Movie Mrs. Agnes Cilak

  7. 1987
    Roses Are for the Rich

    TV show Daisy

  8. 1987
    Roses Are for the Rich

    Movie Daisy

  9. 1987
    Young Harry Houdini

    Movie Mrs. Weiss

  10. 1986
    The Deliberate Stranger

    Movie Eleanor Rose

  11. 1986
    The Deliberate Stranger

    TV show Eleanor Rose

  12. 1985
    The Execution

    Movie

  13. 1983
    Daniel

    Movie Grandmother

  14. 1982
    St. Elsewhere

    TV show Vera Anya