Ido Tako (; born 4 November 2001) is an Israeli actor. He is known for starring in the 2023 Israeli war drama film ''
The Vanishing Soldier'' and in the 2024 American epic biblical film ''
Mary''.
Early life
Tako grew up in
Hadar Yosef,
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...
, the oldest of five siblings.
He is Jewish; his mother's family were
Holocaust survivors
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from Poland, while his father is from Iraq.
His mother died of cancer when he was six years old.
His stepmother, Pamela, is an American-Israeli.
As an actor, he served his
military conscription
Conscription, also known as the draft in the United States and Israel, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it conti ...
as an active artist, limiting him to clerical work.
Career
In 2021, Tako starred in ', a television miniseries about an Israeli youth group's journey to the
German extermination camps in Poland. In 2023, he played Shlomi in the Israeli war drama film ''
The Vanishing Soldier''. That year, he also starred in the youth drama television series ''
Metukim''.
In 2024, he starred in the film ''
Come Closer'' and played
Saint Joseph
According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph (; ) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...
in the epic biblical film ''
Mary''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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2001 births
Living people
Israeli male film actors
Israeli male television actors
Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Male actors from Tel Aviv
Jewish film people