Yuval Scharf (; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli film, television and theatre actress, and model.

Early life

Scharf was born in

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 ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

, to a family of

Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

(

Polish-Jewish The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jews, Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long pe ...

) background.

Career

Television and Cinema

In 2008 she played in ''Lost Islands''. In 2013 she played Yael, a young journalist in the film ''

Ana Arabia ''Ana Arabia'' ("''I Am Arab''") is a 2013 French-Israeli drama film written and directed by Amos Gitai. It was entered into the main competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. It consists of a single long take.E. Nina Rothe. (Ju ...

''. In 2015 she played Mira in ''Moon in the 12th House''. In 2018, she played Tanya in the BBC drama ''

McMafia ''McMafia'' is a British crime drama television series created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins, and directed by Watkins. It is inspired by the book '' McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld'' by journalist Misha Glenny ...

''. She plays Rochel, an Ashkenazi love interest of a Sephardic Israeli, in the TV show '' Beauty Queen of Jerusalem''. In 2023, she played

Mossad The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (), popularly known as Mossad ( , ), is the national intelligence agency of the Israel, State of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with M ...

agent Sarah in ''

Ghosts of Beirut ''Ghosts of Beirut'' is a four-part espionage thriller television series that debuted on Showtime on May 19, 2023. Synopsis The series explores the real-life manhunt for senior Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh. Mughniyeh was implicated in Hezb ...

''.

Theatre

At the

Beit Lessin Theater Beit Lessin Theater (, translit: ''Teatron Bet Lessin'') is a theater in Tel Aviv, Israel. History The theater was established in 1980 by Yaakov Agmon for the Histadrut. Over the years the theater has shown over a thousand contemporary American ...

she participated in several plays: In 2008, she played Jill in the play ''Aquus'' and was part of the cast in the play ''Alma and Ruth''; in 2009 she participated in the play ''Conditions of Affection'' and in 2010 in the play ''

Uncle Vanya ''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897, and first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstan ...

''.

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Yuval Scharf
on The Idibe * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scharf, Yuval Israeli film actresses Israeli stage actresses Israeli female models 1985 births Living people Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent