Mili Avital
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Mili Avital began her career, at the age of 17, in
Christopher Hampton's
"Dangerous Liaisons", at the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv. Among her
Israeli films, she won the 1992 Israeli Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress for
Over the Ocean (1991) (aka "Over the
Ocean"). Arriving in New York in 1994, she was immediately cast as the
female lead in Roland Emmerich's
Stargate (1994), for which she received
a Sci-Fi Universe award. Her film work includes:
Dead Man (1995)
(Jim Jarmusch),
Kissing a Fool (1998)
(Doug Ellin),
Polish Wedding (1998),
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998),
The Young Girl and the Monsoon (1999),
The Human Stain (2003)
(Robert Benton),
When Do We Eat? (2005),
Colombian Love (2004) (aka
"Columbian Love") (Israel), and
Noodle (2007) (Israel / China), for which
she received the 2007 Israeli Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress,
the Israeli Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and Israel's
Person of the Year nomination. Television: "Scheherazade" in the
Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries,
Arabian Nights (2000),
NBC miniseries,
Uprising (2001)
(Jon Avnet), USA Network's
After the Storm (2001),
Damages (2007) (FX),
Prisoners of War (2009) (aka "Prisoners of
War") (Keshet, Israel). Directed a short documentary,
I Think Myself I Am All the Time Younger (2004),
(Tribeca Film Festival 2004, Jerusalem Film Festival 2004). She resides
in New York City with her husband, screenwriter
Charles Randolph, and their
son and daughter.