Ayelet Zurer

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Actress

Birth Name: Ayelet July Zurer

Birth Date: June 28, 1969

Age: 55 years old

Birth Place: Tel Aviv, Israel

One of Israel's most respected actresses, Ayelet Zurer made her international film debut in "Munich," a historical drama about the Mossad's secret retaliation against the terrorist group that murdered Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Zurer made her feature film debut alongside Sophie Marceau in the 1991 French motion picture "For Sasha." Most of her work came through Israeli television for the remainder of the decade, including an award-winning turn as Noga Caspi in the 1992 high school drama "Inyan Shel Zman" and then playing Shira Shteinberg in a multi-episode appearance of the 1997 weekly drama "Florentine."

More accolades came Zurer's way - she won an Israeli Academy Award for portraying the widowed title character of the 2003 dramedy "Nina's Tragedies," and a rendering of patient Na'ama Lerner in the smash 2005 weekly series "Betipul (In Therapy)" netted her a Best Actress Award from the Israeli Television Academy. ("Betipul" was remade as the award-winning HBO series "In Treatment.") Hollywood soon took notice and Zurer made her American film debut as Eric Bana's wife Daphna in 2005's "Munich." She quickly followed by playing Michaela in the 2007 Canadian coming-of-age film "Fugitive Pieces" and Gina Grey, a nurse who falls in love with Jeff Goldblum's Holocaust survivor in Paul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected" the following year.

One of Zurer's biggest international film roles was as Vittoria Vetra, the female lead opposite Tom Hanks in the 2009 adaptation of author Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons."

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MoonhavenStream

Actor
Maite Voss
Series
2022
67%

Law & Order: Organized CrimeStream

Guest Star
Tia Leonetti
Series
2021

Losing AliceStream

Actor
Alice
Series
2021
78%

Hide Away

Actor
Show
2019

Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog

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Shoshonna
Movie
2019

Ben-Hur: Extras

Actor
Show
2017

TakenStream

Guest Star
Leah Wicker
Series
2017

Milada

Actor
Milada Horáková
Movie
2017

Milada

Producer
Movie
2017

Ben-Hur

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Naomi
Movie
2016

Marvel's DaredevilStream

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Vanessa
Series
2015

Hostages

Actor
Yael Danon
Show
2015

Last Days in the DesertStream

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Mother
Movie
2015

Last Knights

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Naomi
Movie
2015

TransparentStream

Guest Star
Ronit
Series
2014
91%

Familjen Shtisel

Actor
Show
2014

Rake

Guest Star
Fiona Rinaldi
Show
2014

Man of SteelStream

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Lara Lor-Van
Movie
2013
56%

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

Actor
Show
2012

TouchStream

Guest Star
Rosemary Mathis
Series
2012
68%

Darling Companion

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Carmen
Movie
2012

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

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April Orenski
Movie
2012

A Year in Mooring

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The Waitress
Movie
2011

Angels & DemonsStream

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Vittoria Vetra
Movie
2009
36%

Ingenious

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Gina
Movie
2009

Vantage PointStream

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Veronica
Movie
2008
34%

Rak Klavim Ratzim Hofshi

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Telma
Movie
2007

Fugitive Pieces

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Michaela
Movie
2007

MunichStream

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Daphna
Movie
2005
78%

Nina's Tragedies

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Nina
Movie
2004

Desperado Square

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Movie
2002

The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field

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Lea
Movie
1998

The View

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Talk
1997

Good Morning America

Guest
News
1975

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