Rita Zohar
Known For
Acting
Born
1943-01-10
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).
Most Known For
Monk
as Mrs. Zlatavich
JAG
as Mrs. Minas
High Potential
as Miriam Weisman
ER
as Patient's Wife
St. Elsewhere
as Vera Anya
Hunters
as Esther Schwartzman
7th Heaven
as Charlotte Kerjesz
Grotesquerie
as Mumbling Hospital Patient
Waterworld
as Atoller
Little America
Tree #3
as Nurit
Eleanor the Great
as Bessie
Unspoken
as Mrs. Helfgott
Final Analysis
as Dr. Grusin
Lady in White
as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
Roses Are for the Rich
as Daisy
Bella Mafia
as Sister Giuliana
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Peter's Mother
The Deliberate Stranger
as Eleanor Rose
Daniel
as Grandmother