Actress

'Very difficult for me': Actress Hana Laszlo decides to not carry Independence Day torch

Laszlo has faced controversy over supposed statements that opponents allege criticized the IDF's activities, particularly during the Israel-Hamas War.

Hana Laszlo walks the red carpet ahead of a movie showing at the 77th Venice Film Festival, September 2020; illustrative.
Catherine O'Hara arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscars party during the 97th Academy Awards, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 2, 2025.

Catherine O'Hara, actress from Home Alone, Schitt’s Creek dies at 71 in Los Angeles home

Amanda Seyfried attends the fifth annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles, California, October 18, 2025; illustrative.

Amanda Seyfried learns about Shaker founder for film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

Cast members Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney attend a premiere for the film 'The Housemaid' in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 15, 2025.

Sydney Sweeney stuns in dress designed by Israeli fashion designer Galia Lahav


This famous Jewish actress is making aliyah to Israel

Law & Order actress Diane Neal has left the glamor of Hollywood for the sunny skies of Israel.

US actress Diane Neal poses during the opening ceremony of the 52nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco June 10, 2012

Israeli actors win big at 2023 ‘Series Mania’ in France

Two actresses, Rotem Sela and Gal Malka, shared the Best Actress Award in the International Panorama competition. Eran Naim won Best Actor.

 ROTEM SELA and Gal Malka.

How did Marnina Schon land her big break in Israel's 'Chanshi?'

Forced into lockdown along with everyone else, Schon and her partner, Michael O’Konis, decided to make irreverent videos that they posted on Instagram. And that’s how Schon was discovered.

 MARNINA SCHON (left) with her ‘Chanshi’ co-stars Caroline Aaron, Henry Winkler and Aleeza Chanowitz.

First clip of Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren released

The nearly two-minute footage shows Mirren playing the Israeli leader during the events of the Yom Kippur War in the early 1970s.

 HELEN MIRREN as Golda Meir.

Iranian actress arrested after showing solidarity with executed protester

The arrest came a week after she published a post on Instagram showing solidarity with Mohsen Shekari, a protester who had been executed.

Taraneh Alidoosti at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 26, 2022.

Natalie Portman says rising antisemitism ‘painful,’ ‘frightening’

“This hatred must be combatted with boundless love for each other,” Portman said.

Natalie Portman attends the premiere of "Pachinko" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, US, March 16, 2022.

Shira Haas: Israeli star to make superhero waves with Marvel as Sabra

No. 46 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Israeli actress Shira Haas, the new Sabra at Marvel.

 Left: Marvel superhero Sabra as she appears in the comics. RIGHT: Israeli actress Shira Haas

Jews in Bollywood: The Jewish actresses that shaped Indian cinema

New Delhi mural memorializes pioneering Baghdadi-Jewish film divas that helped shape the Bollywood film industry.

 Meenakshi Lekhi (left) and Naor Gilon unveil the mural of Nadira at Connaught Place in New Delhi.

On Jewish hubris and Jewish pride - opinion

intermarriage is a phenomenon that is one painful by-product of Jewish integration into the broader, multi-cultural society that has surrounded us.

 AN IDF officer salutes, at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, in front of a statue of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the kibbutz’s old, destroyed water tower, as the nationwide siren to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day sounds, in 2011.

Olivia Newton-John passes away at 73 after fighting breast cancer

Newton-John was Jewish on her mother's side and is the granddaughter of Jewish Austrian Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.

 Cast member Olivia Newton-John attends a 40th anniversary screening of "Grease" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California, US, August 15, 2018.