- Born
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- Mili Avital is the first Israeli actor to establish a career in Hollywood. She started on stage at the age of 17 in Tel Aviv's Cameri National Theater. In film, she won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for Best Actress, both before she was 20. Moving to the US in 1994, Avital starred in numerous films including Jim Jarmousch's Deadman and Roland Emmerich's Stargate. Her extensive television work includes Law & Order, Damages and a starring stint in Prisoners of War (aka Hatufim)-- which the New York Times listed number one in its "Thirty Best International TV Shows of the Decade" (2019).
For 2024, Avital has just completed Mary opposite Anthony Hopkins and she is currently filming Kugel, a spin off of the hit series Shtisel. An Italian film based on Meir Shalev's award-winning novel, Four Meals, is scheduled for release next year.
As a director, Avital co-wrote and directed Next Stop at the Broadway Comedy Club (2017-2018) and her short documentary film, I Think Myself I Am All the Time Younger, was part of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004.
Avital lives in London and New York, and has been married for many years to Oscar-winning screenwriter, Charles Randolph. They have two children.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Liebman Entertainment LLC
- SpouseCharles Randolph(July 4, 2004 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenFanny Randolph
- ParentsDr. Iko AvitalNoni Avital
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Arrived on her own in New York in 1993, to attend "Circle in the Square" acting program. A year later, while working as a waitress, she was discovered by an agent. Two weeks later, she landed the female lead in Stargate (1994).
- Speaking like a native American was important, "I didn't want my roles to be limited by language or culture". Success followed. She's been cast in American roles, as well as Southern, British, and others.
- Mili and David Schwimmer split up in November 2001.
- Mother, with husband Charles Randolph, of two children: a son Benjamin Randolph and a daughter Fanny Randolph.
- I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.
- It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.
- I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn't want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.
- In Israel, I think I have the image of an 'Ashkenazi woman' as a stereotype. Someone once told me that I look like a deodorant commercial. But my appearance is misleading; I can be emotionally aggressive, too, and in 'Law and Order,' I once played a murderer. I see no limitations. I see both my toughness and the softness.
- I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.
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