Ronit Elkabetz
| Ronit Elkabetz | |
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Elkabetz in Jaffa, 2009
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| Born |
27 November 1964 Beersheba, Israel |
| Died | 19 April 2016 (aged 51) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Actress, film director |
| Years active | 1990–2016 |
| Spouse(s) | Avner Yashar (2010–2016) |
Ronit Elkabetz (Hebrew: רונית אלקבץ; 27 November 1964 – 19 April 2016) was an Israeli actress and filmmaker. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations.
Elkabetz was born in Beersheba in 1964 to a religious Moroccan Jewish family originally from Essaouira, and grew up in Kiryat Yam. Her mother spoke French and Arabic, but her father insisted on speaking only Hebrew. Elkabetz was the oldest of four children, with three younger siblings who were all brothers. Her younger brother Shlomi became a director whom she worked with on their trilogy on the life of Viviane Amsalem.
She never studied acting and started her career as a model. She divided her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv. She married architect Avner Yashar on 25 June 2010.
In 2015 she was selected to be the President of the Jury for the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Elkabetz succumbed to cancer on 19 April 2016 after a long struggle with the disease.
Her first film appearance was in The Intended (1990) next to Shuli Rand, who later became her partner. They both starred in Gidi Dar's Eddie King in 1992. In 1994 she starred in Sh'Chur, for which she won the Israeli Film Academy (Ophir) Award. In 1995 she wrote with her partner, Haim Buzaglo, the script for Scar, in which she also starred, and for which she learned French. In 1996 she starred in Amos Gitai's Metamorphosis of a Melody. In 1997 she moved to Paris to study in Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil. During that period, she supported herself as a waitress. She did a one-woman show on the life of the choreographer Martha Graham at the Avignon Festival.
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