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Gila Almagor Agmon (Hebrew: גילה אלמגור אגמון; 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".
Gila Almagor was born on 22 July 1939 in Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]. She is an actress and writer, known for Munich (2005), The Summer of Aviya (1988) and Under the Domim Tree (1994). She was previously married to Ya'ackov Agmon.
Jun 23, 2021 · Actress, writer, screenwriter, founder, philanthropist, and film director, Gila Almagor. Almagor is one of the "leading ladies" of Israeli stage and screen. Her personal narratives served as a catalyst for opening up the discussion of Holocaust survivors in Israel. Institution: Amy Kronish.
She is the president and one of the initiators of the International Film Festival of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, first held in Spring, 2002. Almagor is also the founder of the Gila Almagor Wishes Foundation, a non-profit organization which works for the welfare of children with terminal diseases.
Feb 4, 2021 · Here there’s nothing,' says celebrated Israeli actress Gila Almagor, who is coping with the demise of her life’s two great loves: husband Yaakov Agmon and cultural institutions.
Gila Almagor, the grande dame of Israeli cinema, is a film, theatre, and television actress; an author, screenwriter, playwright, and the 2004 recipient of the Israel Prize in the category of Film. Almgor started out in theatre at the age of 17 when she joined the Habima Theatre company and was cast in Thornton Wilder’s, The Skin of Our Teeth.
Once acclaimed as a symbol of Israeli culture, in which her work has been noted to have enriched the Israeli art scene, Gila Almagor is known today as one of Israel's leading actresses and renowned authors; however, her early years were not glamorous.
Apr 13, 2015 · At 75, Israeli Actor Gila Almagor May Have Found the Role of a Lifetime. The veteran Israeli actor has the enthusiasm of someone half her age when discussing new drama ‘Taken at Midnight,’ set in Nazi Germany. She says the play has clear implications for contemporary Israel.
Apr 12, 2005 · Gila Almagor was the daughter of a father who was policeman in the British Army and a mother who was mentally ill. Almagor never saw her father as he was killed by an Arab sniper when her mother was five months pregnant. Her mother later remarried.
ALMAGOR, GILA (1939– ), first lady of Israeli stage and screen; also the author of several children's books. Born in Petaḥ Tikvah, Almagor wrote about her troubled childhood as the daughter of a widowed, mentally ill Holocaust survivor in her book, The Summer of Aviya, which was filmed in 1988.
