Ayelet Zurer is an award-winning film, television, and theatre actress who, in 2003, won an Ophir Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Savi Gabizon’s Nina’s Tragedies. On top of her Israeli body of work, Zurer also has a long list of international credits to her name. Highlights of her TV series acting roles include Florentine, Zinzana, In Therapy (which was later adapted to HBO’s In Treatment), Shtisel, and Hostages. Zurer’s formidable list of film credits include The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (Enrique Rottenberg, 1993), The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (Yossi Somer, 1997), Desperado Square (Benny Toraty, 2001), Rutenberg (Eli Cohen, 2001), Mashehu Matok (‘something sweet’) (Dan Turgeman, 2004), Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005), Wild Dogs (Arnon Zadok, 2007), Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008), Adam Resurrected (Paul Schrader, 2008), Angels & Demons (Ron Howard, 2009), Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013), and Ben-Hur (Timur Bekmambetov, 2016).