Maya Maron (; born ) is an Israeli actress, an

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winner.

Early life

Maron was raised in

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. She is the youngest of four siblings. Her mother, an office manager, was born in

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, where her family fled from

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before

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. Her father was born in

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and is a diamond dealer. She grew up on Balfour Street in

. When she was 12, her parents divorced after 24 years of marriage. Maron went to the primary and secondary of School for the Arts Tel Aviv. During the fourth grade she was sent to the theater track, but did not stand out. In 1996, during the summer vacation between ninth and tenth grade, she was scouted in the Arad music festival and cast in

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's film '' Saint Clara'', later she was nominated for the

as a supporting actress in that film. She started high school at the notable Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts majoring in theatre, but a year later she moved to Ironi He, a regular municipal high school. She was not enlisted to the

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, because she was underweight.

Career

In 1998, Nir Bergman was producing his own film entitled ''Seahorses'' to be submitted as his graduation work for the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem. Maya was cast as the lead role. In 2002 Bergman cast her in the leading role in '' Broken Wings''. A highly

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ic portrayal of a family living in

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and struggling to recover 9 months after the sudden and senseless loss of its father figure (himself appearing only in vague recollections and old family footage). She played the lead role of the daughter struggling to come to terms with her new position as head of the crumbling household, after mother

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shunts the task. The movie won audience approval as well as international and national critical acclaim appearing in numerous international film festivals. The movie won several awards including the

for best picture, landing Maya with the best actress award. Between 2003 and 2004, she played several minor parts in the films ''She's Not 17'' alongside Dalia Shimko and ''Campfire''. In 2005 she again played the lead in a

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student movie dubbed ''Whatever It Takes'' (''Be'einaim Atsumot''), as the fragile and self-destructive partner in a lesbian relationship. In 2005, she was cast on the ''

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'' television series as a suicidal gymnast. She played the fiancée of the character played by

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in the crime series '' The Arbitrator'' ("Haborer"), and in 2009, she was cast in the lead role on the melodrama ''Weeping Susannah'' on

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'',

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's modern take on the mythological tale of

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and Hippolytus. In 2015, she featured in several episodes of the second series of ''

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'' portraying Hadassah Levi, a painter.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maron, Maya 1980 births Living people Israeli people of Polish descent Israeli television actresses Israeli film actresses Ophir Award winners Thelma Yellin High School of Arts alumni Israeli child actresses