Rita Zohar

Rita Zohar is an actress with a career spanning film television and theater She was born during World War II in a concentration camp in Balta then part of the Kingdom of Romania She emigrated to Israel with her mother in the 1950s and began acting at the Cameri Theatre performing in Yiddish In the 1980s she moved to the United States and appeared on television series including Quincy ME St Elsewhere and Cagney Lacey Her film credits from that period include Daniel 1983 Amadeus 1984 The Deliberate Stranger 1986 and Lady in White 1988 She won the Israeli Film Academys Best Actress award for Laura Adlers Last Love Affair 1990 Her later roles include Mrs Moskowitz and the Cats 2009 and Eleanor the Great 2025