A
recent recipient of France’s highest accolade, the Legion d’Honneur,
actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz has about 30 movies under her belt.
Her latest, “Gett: Le procès de Viviane Amsallem,” (the third in a
trilogy she made with her brother Shlomi) will be screened during
Directors’ Fortnight at the 2014 Cannes Festival, a sidebar event that
showcases films from around the world.
Born in Be’er Sheva in 1964 to an
observant working-class family from Morocco, Elkabetz is known for her
emotional, intense and yet controlled acting, which has earned her
numerous awards and nominations even since she launched her career in
the early 1990s.
In 1997, she moved to France, where she studied under
Arianne Mnouchkin, and has since then starred in both French and Israeli
films. Married to the architect Avner Yasharon, she is the mother of
twins and divides her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv.
