
Rita Zohar
Biography
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 M.E., 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 Academy’s Best Actress award for Laura Adler’s Last Love Affair (1990). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
TV Shows(11)

Grotesquerie
Mumbling Hospital Patient

High Potential
Miriam Weisman

Hunters
Esther Schwartzman

Little America

Monk
Mrs. Zlatavich

7th Heaven
Charlotte Kerjesz

JAG
Mrs. Minas

ER
Patient's Wife

Roses Are for the Rich
Daisy

The Deliberate Stranger
Eleanor Rose

St. Elsewhere
Vera Anya