Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer (center) with Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline at the premiere of their film Darling Companion at the Santa Barbara Film Festival (2012)

Ayelet July Zurer ( Hebrew איילת זורר; * June 28, 1969 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli actress . The former model began an acting career in the 1990s and became one of the most popular actresses in Israel. So far she has appeared in more than 20 film and television roles, mostly dramas. She became known to a wide audience primarily through her leading role in the Israeli feature film Nina's Tragedies (2003) and appearances in international cinema such as Munich (2005), 8 Blickwinkel (2008) or Illuminati (2009).

Life

Ayelet Zurer was born in Israel in 1969. She grew up in Tel Aviv and, according to her own statements, was considered shy in her childhood. As a teenager, she finally began to work as a model , completed military service and enrolled in an acting school. She had previously accompanied a friend to an audition. The real motivation for Zurer to take acting classes was her friends who went to the same school. Only after playing the role of a young mannequin in a school performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play The bitter tears of Petra von Kant , in which she was able to benefit from her own experience as a model in Japan , she made the decision to pursue a career as an actress. From the early 1990s, Zurer began to gain a foothold in Israeli cinema and television. She made her feature film debut in 1991 with a supporting role alongside Sophie Marceau and Richard Berry in Alexandre Arcady's drama In the Shadow of the Golan Heights . She first visited the United States in 1996 and later worked with the Habitual Theater Group in New York, studying with George Morrison at the New Actors Workshop , co-founded by the well-known film director Mike Nichols . “I saw this step not as giving up anything, but rather to move forward. ”said Zurer about her departure from Israel.

Zurer's breakthrough as a film actress in her home country paved the way for the female lead alongside Yehezkel Lazarov in Yossi Somer's love drama The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field . The Israeli version of Romeo and Juliet , loosely based on a play by Sholom Ansky , earned her a 1997 Israeli Film Award nomination. She then acted in roles as varied as a waitress in a Greek-Jewish village ( Desperado Square , 2001), as Beckie in the Pinchas-Rutenberg biography Rutenberg (2003), as a raped and abused social worker in Arnon Zadok's Wild Dogs (2007) and as a nervous and attractive title hero in Savi Gavison's tragic comedy Nina's Tragedies (2003), which becomes the object of desire of her fourteen-year-old nephew. For all of these films, Zurer was nominated for the Ophir Award , Israel's national film award. The trophy for Best Actress finally brought her Nina's Tragedies . In 2003, the film also competed as an official Israeli nominee for an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and made the actress known to an international audience. For example, film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times rated Zurer as the Israeli answer to the young Diane Keaton because of her beauty and “lively eccentricity” . In 2005, Zurer successfully applied for the role of the pregnant and understanding wife of a Mossad agent (played by Eric Bana ) in Steven Spielberg's Munich . With Spielberg's cinematic reappraisal of the secret Israeli countermeasure that followed the Palestinian attack at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , the Israeli celebrated her debut in international cinema and received praise from critics. Zurer saw her first English-language role as a "great opportunity" to enter the American film business. Since then she has been planning to build a two-pronged career in the Israeli and US film industries, including working with a language coach to shed her light accent.

In her homeland, Zurer remained present to a broad television audience through the role of lovesick Na'ama in the television series BeTipul (2005), in which a psychotherapist (played by Assi Dayan ) questions his life and seeks out his former therapist himself. The successful format was used by the American television broadcaster HBO , which in 2008 conceived the series In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne as the title hero, in which Melissa George Zurer's award-winning role. The Israeli actress was able to prove her comedic talent with the sketch comedy Gomrot Holchot (2006). This is based on the British format Smack the Pony and revolves around three women who live in Tel Aviv. In 2007, Zurer was seen in her second international film role with Fugitive Pieces , after she became aware of director Jeremy Podeswa through Munich and Nina's Tragedies . In the Holocaust drama she cast Podeswa as the Russian immigrant Michaela, who understands and learns to accept the trauma and pain of the adult title hero (played by Stephen Dillane ). A year later, Zurer acted as a terrorist and femme fatale in Pete Travis ' 8 Perspectives . Well-known professional colleagues such as Dennis Quaid , Eduardo Noriega , Forest Whitaker and William Hurt were her film partners in the political thriller, which takes on an attack on an international anti-terror summit .

Three other leading roles in international cinema followed by 2009, including Ron Howard's literary film adaptation Illuminati with Tom Hanks , which is based on Dan Brown 's bestseller of the same name. Zurer had previously secured the role of physicist and marine biologist Vittoria Vetra against such established Hollywood actresses as Naomi Watts . 2011 followed the female lead alongside Josh Lucas in Chris Eyre's drama A Year in Mooring , a year later a supporting role in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion at the side of u. a. Diane Keaton , Kevin Kline , Dianne Wiest and Richard Jenkins . In 2013, she took on the role of the birth mother of the title hero (played by Henry Cavill ), Lara Lor-Van in Zack Snyder's comic adaptation Man of Steel , replacing the originally planned Julia Ormond .

Ayelet Zurer is married to her compatriot Gilad Londovski and now lives alternately in Los Angeles and Israel. The relationship with Londovski resulted in a son who was born in 2005. In addition to her acting career, she has worked part-time as a book illustrator in the past .

Filmography (selection)

Zurer working with Tom Hanks on the set of Illuminati (2008)
  • 1991: In the shadow of the Golan Heights (Pour Sacha)
  • 1993: The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (Nikmato Shel Itzik Finkelstein)
  • 1996: The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (Ha Dybbuk B'sde Hatapuchim Hakdoshim)
  • 2001: Laila Lelo Lola
  • 2001: Desperado Square (Kikar Ha-Halomot)
  • 2003: Nina's Tragedies (Ha-Asonot Shel Nina)
  • 2003: Rutenberg (Ish HaHashmal)
  • 2004: Maktub
  • 2004: Something Sweet (Mashehu Matok)
  • 2005: BeTipul (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 2005: Munich (Munich)
  • 2006: Gomrot Holchot (TV series, episode 1x01)
  • 2007: Fugitive Pieces
  • 2007: Wild Dogs (Rak Klavim Ratzim Hofshi)
  • 2008: 8 angles (Vantage Point)
  • 2008: A Life for a Life - Adam Resurrected (Adam Resurrected)
  • 2008: Lightbulb
  • 2009: Ingenious
  • 2009: Illuminati (Angels & Demons)
  • 2011: A Year in Mooring
  • 2012: Darling Companion
  • 2012: Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (Miniseries, 5 episodes)
  • 2013: Shtisel (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 2013: Hostages ( Bnei Aruba , TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2013: Man of Steel
  • 2013: Touch (TV series, episode 2x02 Closer )
  • 2015: Last Days in the Desert
  • 2015: Last Knights - The Knights of the 7th Order (Last Knights)
  • 2015, 2018: Marvel's Daredevil (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 2015: 40 Days in the Desert (Last Days in the Desert)
  • 2016: Ben Hur (Ben-Hur)
  • 2017: Taken - Time is your enemy (TV series, episode 1x08 Leah )
  • 2017: Transparent (TV series, episode 4x06 I Never Promised You a Promised Land )
  • 2017: Milada
  • 2019: Legacies (TV series, episode 1x08 Maybe I Should Start from the End )

Awards

Ophir Award
  • 1997: Nominated for Best Actress for The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field
  • 2000: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Desperado Square
  • 2001: nominated as best leading actress for Rutenberg
  • 2003: Best Actress for Nina's Tragedies
  • 2006: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Wild Dogs
Awards of the Israeli Television Academy
  • 2006: Best Actress for BeTipul

Web links

Commons : Ayelet Zurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Tugend, Tom: Straddling two film industries ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Jerusalem Post , April 28, 2008, p. 24 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishjournal.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e Riley, Jenelle: Heaven sent: Ayelet Zurer goes from 'Fugitive Pieces' to' Angels & Demons. In: Back Stage West 15 (2008), No. 20, p. 8
  3. ↑ a b c Burstein, Nathan: Hollywood Story: Israeli Lands (Another) Big Role . In: The Forward , February 22, 2008, p. B10
  4. ↑ Holden, Stephen: In Tragedy, an Opportunity for a Teenage Peeping Tom . In: The New York Times , March 25, 2005
  5. ↑ Ayelet Zurer Is Playing Superman's Mom In 'Man of Steel' at screenrant.com, September 26, 2011 (accessed April 8, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Zurer, Ayelet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES To'rer, Ayelet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv