Ruth Farchi (or Farhi) born as Ruth Zimmer (; 13 August 1927 – 19 April 2021) was an Austrian-born Israeli TV, stage and film actress.

Life

Zimmer was born in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

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,נירית, אנדרמן
"Actress Ruth Farhi dies at 93"
''Haaretz'', April 19, 2021 and she emigrated to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ...

with her parents in 1934. She became as a teacher. During Israel's War of Independence, she served in the

Haganah Haganah ( , ) was the main Zionist political violence, Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the reg ...

. She married in 1951 and had three children. From 1968 she took acting lessons, studying at Kibbutzim College's School of Performing Arts, and from 1972 she started performing in the theatre. Apart from the theatre she has worked on 40 television and film productions, including ''

Schindler's List ''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the historical novel '' Schindler's Ark'' (1982) by Thomas Keneally. The film follows ...

'' (1993), ''What's the 48?'' (2011), '' The Farewell Party'' (2014), ''

My Michael ''My Michael'' ( ''Mikha'el sheli'') is a 1968 novel by the Israeli author Amos Oz. The story, told in first-person by a dissatisfied wife, describes her deteriorating marriage to a geology student and her escape into a private fantasy world of ...

'', ''Get Through the Wall'', ''Sima Vaknin Witch'' and the short film ''

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'' (2015). That movie was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, ''Best Short Subject, On ...

at the

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in 2016. Two of the films she was in were presented at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...

in 1997 and 2000. On television, she played roles in the series ''Kofiko'', ''Traffic Light'', ''All Bash'', and her last role, Ms. Pepperney, in ''Kupa Rashit''. Farchi last lived in

Ramat Gan Ramat Gan (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exch ...

. Farchi died on 19 April 2021, aged 93, and is buried in the Zichron Yaacov cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farchi, Ruth 20th-century Israeli actresses 21st-century Israeli actresses Israeli stage actresses Austrian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Austrian film actresses Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah Austrian television actresses 1927 births 2021 deaths Actresses from Vienna Place of death missing Kibbutzim College alumni