Ilanit Ben Yaakov

Education & Trainings

1998-2001    The School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem

Theater

2012-2022 – Co-creator and performer, The Opposite of Alive – A narrated walk for a single audience member, the Jerusalem Museum of Natural History

2015 – Co-Creator, director and actor, Wake Up Elijah and Smell The Coffee, Dimona Theatre

2010 – The Client, Director: Roni Ninio, Gesher Theatre

2000-2013 – Adaptation from book, director and actor, Hanale’s Shabas Dress. Featured in the following festivals: Pif (Zagreb, Kroatia), Lutke (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Acco Festival (Acco, Israel)

Films

2023 – Barren (Director: Mordechai Vardi)

2015 – Inertia (Director: Idan Haguel)

2015 – Hounds (Director: Omer Tubi)

2012 – Alice (Best Actress, Jerusalem Film Festival; Director: Dena Goldberg)

2011 – Testimony (Director: Shlmoi Elkabetz)

2008 – Everything Begins in the Sea (Director: Eitan Green)

2007 – Méduses (Directors: Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen)

2007 – Tehilim (Director: Raphaël Nadjari)

2005 – Close To Home (Directors: Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hager)

2004 – The Long Journey (Director: Eran Kolirin)

Television

2023 – Aviram Katz – Drama series (Director: Eitan Tzur, Kan 11)

2022 – Nowhere – Teen series (Director: Rani Saar, Teen Nick)

2021 – The Heiress – Drama series (Director: Omer Tubi, Keshet)

2020  – Possessions – Drama series (Director: Thomas Vincent, HBO/ Canal+)

2019 – Fifty – Drama series (Director: Dafna Levin, Yes)

2017 – Your Honor – Drama series (Director: Roni Ninio, Yes)

2017 – Vicky and Me – Comedy series (Director: Rani Saar, Channel 10)

2016  – Ikaron HaHachlafa – Drama series (Director: Oded Davidoff, Hot)

2011 – Asfur – Drama series (Director: Rani Saar, Hot)

2010 – The Dreamers – Youth drama (Director: Shai Kapon, Hot)

2009 – Teivat Noah (Noah’s Ark) – Drama series (Director: Rani Blair, Reshet)

2008 – Hasufim (Exposed) – Daily drama (Director: Rani Saar, Hot)

2008 – Makom Ledaga (The Saddest Sketch Show in the World) – Comedy sketch show (Director: Yammi Weisler, Channel 10)

2006 – Bsorot Tovot (Good News) – Comedy series (Director: Michal Livdinski, Keshet)

2006 – Miluim – Drama series (Director: Uri Barbash, Reshet)

2002 – Haya Nehedar (It was Great) – Feature (Director: Sivan Arbel, Channel 2)

Awards and Scholarships

2020 – Best Female Actress in Drama Series, The Israeli Television Academy, for Fifty

2017 – Nominated Best Female Actress in Drama Series, The Israeli Television Academy, for Your Honor

2012 – Best Female Actress, Jerusalem International Film Festival, for Alice