Keren Mor is a film, television, and stage actor. Mor studied her craft at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and got her big break in 1987 in Jacob Goldwasser’s hit family melodrama, Abba Ganuv [loosely ‘crazy dad’], playing main protagonist Chico Ben-David’s (Yehuda Barkan) ex-wife Maggie, who wants to start over in the US and take their son with her. Mor also appeared in a string of successful TV satire programmes including Zehu Ze (that’s that) and The World Tonight, but truly became a household name when she joined the ensemble cast of cult classic, The Cameric Five [‘ha-hamishia hakamerit’], a trailblazing satire programme that ran for four series between 1993-1997.
In 2018, Mor was cast as cashier Kohava Shavit in the hit sitcom, Checkout. Highlights of her other television credits include: The Bourgeoisie (2000-2004), Shorts (2004-2009) that earned her a Television Academy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy, On Any Saturday (2006-2009), Mother’s Day [‘yom haem’] (2012-2016), The Psychologist (2018), and You Should’ve Heard of Us (2022).
Highlights of her film credits include Berlin-Jerusalem (Amos Gitai, 1989), Shuroo (Savi Gabizon, 1990), Cable [‘kvalim’] (Tzvi Shissel, 1992), Black Box (Yehud Levanon, 1993), Dogs are Colour Blind (Orna Raviv & Yohanan Raviv, 1996), Yom Yom (Amos Gitai, 1998), Year Zero (Joseph Pitchhadze, 2004), Joy [‘muchrachim lehiyot same’ach’] (Julie Shles, 2005), Foul Gesture (Tzahi Grad, 2006), Shiva (aka The Seven Days) (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz, 2008), Princess (Tali Shalom-Ezer, 2014), Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club (Guilhad Emilio Schenker, 2017), and Good Morning Son (Sharon Bar-Ziv, 2018).
Mor has appeared on just about every repertoire theatre stage across the country. Since the mid-nineties, she has been a full-time Cameri Theatre company member; a place that has become her artistic home. Highlights of her stage credits include: The Jerusalem Syndrome (Haifa Theatre, 1988), Tartuffe (Habima, 1989), The Odd Couple (Beit Lessin Theatre, 1991), Chefetz (The Cameri Theatre, 1996), Best Friends (The Cameri Theatre, 1999), Master of the House (The Cameri Theatre, 2005), Misery (The Cameri Theatre, 2019), Oedipus Rex (The Cameri Theatre, 2022).
Mor is married to fellow actor Menashe Noy.
