Melanie Peres

Melanie Peres

Melanie Peres ( Hebrew מלאני פרס; * December 1, 1971 in Berlin as Melanie Mariam Thanee Frasch ( Hebrew מלאני מרים תאני פראש)) is a German - Israeli actress , singer and model .

Life

Melanie's parents were hippies , a German father and an Israeli mother. She lived with her father and eventually immigrated to Israel with her mother at the age of 15. She described the move from Berlin to Nazareth-Illit as very traumatic as she did not speak Hebrew and did not understand the local mentality. At the age of 16 she attended a local grammar school, but soon left it due to language difficulties. She then went to Tel Aviv , where she worked as a cleaning lady before starting to work as a model in 1989. She graced the cover of an issue of La-Isha magazine and took part in the Israeli beauty pageant "Face of the 80s", which she did not win, but which ultimately made her famous. Until 1997 she traveled the world as a model. In 1998 she began her professional singing career with a duet with Yahli Sobol . Since 2000 she has also worked as an actress, but mostly as a supporting actress in films and various TV series. In Eitan Zur's debut film Hitparzut X (also known as Naomi), based on the bestselling novel by writer and theater director Edna Mazia, she had a breakthrough in the lead role as Naomi . Naomi was selected for the 67th Venice International Film Festival (2010) in the 25th Critiques Week category .

Filmography (selection)

• 2000: Ha-Burganim ( The Bourgeoisie), TV series, an episode.
• 2001: Abbaleh
• 2004: The Syrian Bride (Ha-Kala Ha-Surit)
• 2010: Hitpartzut X

Web links

• Melanie Peres in theInternet Movie Database(English)