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).

Known For

Monk

Mrs. Zlatavich

JAG

Mrs. Minas

High Potential

Miriam Weisman

ER

Patient's Wife

Hunters

Esther Schwartzman

St. Elsewhere

Vera Anya

7th Heaven

Charlotte Kerjesz

Roses Are for the Rich

Daisy

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Eleanor the Great	Bessie
2024	Unspoken	Mrs. Helfgott
2019	Tree #3	Nurit
2011	Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats	Yolanda Moskowitz
2010	Porcelain Unicorn	Older Woman
1997	A Call to Remember	Renya Weiss
1997	Bella Mafia	Sister Giuliana
1996	The Man Who Captured Eichmann	Peter's Mother
1995	Waterworld	Atoller
1993	The Disappearance of Christina	Anna
1992	Final Analysis	Dr. Grusin
1990	The Last Love of Laura Adler	Laura
1989	From the Dead of Night	Elena
1988	Lady in White	Mrs. Agnes Cilak
1987	Roses Are for the Rich	Daisy
1987	Young Harry Houdini	Mrs. Weiss
1986	The Deliberate Stranger	Eleanor Rose
1985	The Execution
1983	Daniel	Grandmother

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Grotesquerie	Mumbling Hospital Patient
2024	High Potential	Miriam Weisman
2020	Hunters	Esther Schwartzman
2020	Little America
2002	Monk	Mrs. Zlatavich
1996	7th Heaven	Charlotte Kerjesz
1995	JAG	Mrs. Minas
1994	ER	Patient's Wife
1987	Roses Are for the Rich	Daisy
1982	St. Elsewhere	Vera Anya