Yaël Abecassis

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Yaël Abecassis

Yaël Abecassis ( Hebrew יעל אבקסיס; * July 19, 1967 in Ashkelon ) is an Israeli actress . The former model started an acting career in the 1990s and became one of the most popular actors 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 collaboration with Amos Gitai ( Kadosh , 1999; Alila , 2003; Lullaby to my Father , 2012) and appearances in French feature film productions.

Life

Working as a model and switching to film

Yaël Abecassis is the daughter of the Moroccan- born actress Raymonde Abecassis, who is well known in Israel . In 1981, at the age of 14, she was first seen as a model in various advertising campaigns. Among other things, she promoted the Israeli fashion label Castro and the airline El Al . In the early 1990s, Abecassis switched to acting and, like her former colleagues Sandy Bar and Dana Dvorin, also appeared as a presenter, primarily on Israeli children's television. She made her feature film debut in 1991 together with Ayelet Zurer in the drama In the Shadow of the Golan Heights by French director Alexandre Arcady , in which Sophie Marceau and Richard Berry played the leading roles. A year later she got her first lead role in Tel Aviv Stories (1992). In the Israeli episode film, she can be seen in the role of an attractive young woman who is desired by four men at the same time. Other leading roles in Israeli films and television series followed.

However, Abecassis only achieved her breakthrough as an actress in 1999 with Amos Gitais Kadosh, who plays in the ultra-orthodox Jerusalem district of Me'a She'arim . In the story Rigorismus she played the role of the married Rivka, whose desire for children did not come true after ten years of marriage. Therefore, in the eyes of those around them, the connection lacks the blessings of God and the countable contribution to the growth of the church, whereupon the husband (played by Yoram Hattab ) is advised to separate from his wife. In 1999, Kadosh was the first Israeli film in 25 years to compete at the Cannes International Film Festival and made Abecassis known to a wide international audience. Both she and her co -actress Meital Barda were traded for the actor's award together with well-known actresses such as the French Chiara Mastroianni (The Letter) and the Argentine Cecilia Roth ( All About My Mother ) , but the amateur actress Séverine Caneele (L'Humanité) was awarded. Le Monde praised the humanistic representation of the French co-production, noted the beauty of Abecassis and praised the actress together with Barda as the “miracle” of the film. American critics compared the Israeli with the actress Andie MacDowell , while the Süddeutsche Zeitung in its criticism the gentle one , highlighted broken style of play by Abecassis.

Success in international cinema

After serving in Kadosh , Abecassis, who speaks fluent French, began building a two-pronged career in the Israeli and French film industries. After the title role as Maria von Nazareth in Fabrizio Costa's Italian television production Maria, figlia del suo figlio (2000), the first leading role in international cinema followed with the part of the meek mother in Stéphane Giusti's Bella ciao . The drama, in which she worked alongside the French actors Jacques Gamblin and Jalil Lespert , tells the story of a family over several decades who emigrated from fascist Italy to Marseille in the 1930s . After a leading role in the Italian film Ballo a tre passi (2003), another collaboration with Amos Gitai on Alila with Ronit Elkabetz and Hanna Laslo followed in the same year . In the film, which tells about the individual fates of people who all live in a poor apartment building in a suburb of Tel Aviv , she was seen as a young, masochistic lover, which also earned her critical praise in France. At the end of 2003, she received the Golden Screen Award for best series actress for her role in the drama series Shabatot VeHagim on the Israeli television broadcaster Channel 2 .

Again positive reviews brought Abecassis two years later the supporting role in Radu Mihăileanu's drama Go and Live . In the award-winning film, she and Roschdy Zem played the adoptive mother of an Ethiopian boy who poses as a Jew in order to be evacuated to safe Israel as part of Operation Moses . After appearances in three French films ( Papa , 2005; Sans moi , 2007; Survivre avec les loups , 2007), the female lead in Marco Carmel's Comme ton père (2007) represented the greatest success as an actress to date. The film, which appeared in the Set in France in the 1970s, tells the story of an Israeli family whose head (played by Gad Elmaleh ) drifts into crime. The part of Mireille brought Abecassis in 2008 the first nomination for the most important Israeli film award, the Ophir Award . In 2008 she was part of the theater ensemble of the award-winning Israeli-French co-production Shiva, alongside Ronit Elkabetz, Hanna Laslo and Simon Abkarian . A year later she stood in front of the camera for the fictional Israeli television series Hatufim (2009–2012, English-language title Prisoners of War ), which reports on two Israeli soldiers who return to their families after 17 years of imprisonment. The production won three awards from the Israel Television Academy in 2010, including Abecassis for the role of Talya. In the US series Homeland , which is loosely based on Hatufim , Morena Baccarin took on Abecassis' part. In 2012, there was another collaboration with Gitai on Lullaby to my Father , on which Jeanne Moreau and Hanna Schygulla also participated.

Private

From 1996 to 2003 Abecassis was married to the five years younger actor and photo model Lior Miller, whom she met while filming a commercial. The marriage resulted in a son (* 1997). In her second marriage, she is married to the businessman Roni Duek, who has another son (* 2005). The Israeli, who sees herself as an “ambassador for humanity” , has campaigned in the past, among other things, for the rights of rape victims. Abecassis is pro-Palestinian , speaks Arabic, among other things, and counts the Palestinian Mahmud Darwish among her favorite authors. She has been voted one of the most beautiful women in Israel several times in Israel.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1991: In the shadow of the Golan Heights ( Pour Sacha )
  • 1992: Tel Aviv Stories ( Sipurei Tel-Aviv )
  • 1993: The Heritage: An Eternity of Love ( Ha-Yerusha )
  • 1993: Tsarim Balayla
  • 1997: L'Enfant d'Israel (TV)
  • 1999: Kadosh
  • 2000: Maria, figlia del suo figlio (TV)
  • 2001: Bella ciao
  • 2003: Miss Entebbe
  • 2003: Haïm Ze Haïm
  • 2003: Ballo a tre passi
  • 2003: Alila
  • 2005: Go and Live ( Va, vis et deviens )
  • 2005: dad
  • 2007: Sans moi
  • 2007: Survivre avec les loups
  • 2007: Comme ton père
  • 2008: Shiva
  • 2009–2012: Hatufim - In the Hand of the Enemy ( Hatufim ) (TV series)
  • 2011: Rani - ruler of hearts (TV multi-part)
  • 2012: Lullaby to my Father
  • 2014: My heart is dancing (ערבים רוקדים)

Awards

  • 2003: Golden Screen Award for Shabatot VeHagim (Category: Best Series Actress)
  • 2008: Nomination for the Israeli film award Ophir for Comme ton père (best leading actress)
  • 2010: Israeli Television Academy Award for Hatufim (best actress in a television drama, multi-part series, or drama series)

Web links

Commons : Yaël Abecassis  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Cashman, Greer Fay: Grapevine . In: The Jerusalem Post , June 19, 1998, p. 18
  2. ↑ cf. Hauser, Emily: Just a Pretty Face . In: The Jerusalem Post, August 22, 1997, p. 11
  3. ↑ cf. Star directors at the Cannes film competition . Associated Press Worldstream - German April 22, 1999 6:59 AM Eastern Standard Time
  4. ↑ cf. Frodon, Jean-Michel: Le jury du 52e Festival décroche la palme de l'exigence . In: Le Monde, May 25, 1999, Culture
  5. ↑ cf. Frodon, Jean-Michel: La beauté des femmes contre l'intégrisme . In: Le Monde, September 2, 1999, Culture
  6. ↑ cf. Winters, Laura: Playing the Cannes Game . In: The Washington Post, May 23, 1999, Sunday Arts, p. G04
  7. ↑ cf. Crying in your sleep . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 20, 2001, No. 165, p. 14
  8. ↑ cf. Profile at zoom-cinema.fr (French; accessed on May 1, 2009)
  9. ↑ cf. Tranchant, Marie-Noëlle: Une chronique généreuse: Alila . In: Le Figaro , October 1, 2003, p. 26
  10. ↑ cf. Levy, Sasha: Channel 2 tops split win at Golden Screen Awards at hollywoodreporter.com, November 20, 2009
  11. ↑ Lullaby to my Father ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 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. at labiennale.org (accessed September 2, 2012).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  12. ↑ cf. Cashman, Greer Fay: Cairo's just desserts . In: The Jerusalem Post, June 6, 1997, p. 12
  13. ↑ a b cf. Douin, Jean-Luc: La longue marche des FALACHAS vers la TERRE promise . In: Le Monde, July 23, 2004, Culture
  14. ↑ cf. Hauser, Emily: Stars band together for rape victims . In: The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 21, 1997, p. 7
  15. ↑ cf. Collins, Liat: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful . In: The Jerusalem Post, March 14, 1997, p. 7
  16. ↑ cf. Cashman, Greer Fay: Celebrity Grapevine . In: The Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2006, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Abecassis, Yaël
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יעל אבקסיס (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashkelon