Dalia Shimko is a film, television and theatre actress, and theatre director. Shimko began her film acting career as a teenager in the early ‘80s. Her early days performances made her one of the most standout Israeli film actresses of that decade. Highlights of Shimko’s acting credits include Growing Pains (Ze’ev Revach, 1980), Noa at 17 (Isaac Zepel Yeshurun, 1982), Repeat Dive (Shimon Dotan, 1982), Fellow Travellers (Judd Ne’man, 1984), Scar (Haim Bouzaglo, 1997), and She’s not 17 (Isaac Zepel Yeshurun, 2003). Her performance in Uri Barabash’s 1989 film, One of Us, won her a Best Actress award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. In the early noughties, whilst still acting, Shimko also began directing stage plays.