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Tiriel Mora
Tiriel Mora (born 19 October 1958) is an Australian television and film actor. Early life He is a son of the late Melbourne artist Mirka Mora and Georges Mora, German-born Australian entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur. Georges came from a Jewish family of Polish descent. His mother Mirka (née Zelik) was of Romanian and Lithuanian Jewish descent. Tiriel's older brothers are film director Philippe Mora and art dealer William Mora. Career Mora is best known for his role as the hard-nosed journalist Martin Di Stasio, in the TV series '' Frontline'', and the bumbling local solicitor Dennis Denuto, in the movie '' The Castle''. Mora also appeared in Qantas Qantas Airways Limited ( ) is the flag carrier of Australia and the country's largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations. It is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founde ... advertisements in the 2000s, as a Nebari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirka Mora
Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic. Early life Mirka Mora was born in Paris to a Lithuanian Jewish father, Leon Zelik, and a Romanian Jewish mother, Celia Gelbein. She was arrested in 1942 during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (''Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv''). Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers (Loiret) before Mora and her mother were scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz. The family evaded arrest and deportation from 1942 to 1945 by hiding in the forests of France. After the war, 17-year-old Mirka met a wartime resistance fighter Georges Mora in Paris. They married in 1947. In an interview in 2004, Mora said: Migration to Australia Having survived the Holocaust,Mirka Mora and her husband migrated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |