Poly Reshef is a stage, film, and television actor. Reshef, a graduate of Kibbutzim College’s Department of Theatre, was born in Turkey and moved to Israel with his family, aged 14. He spent his military service with the Armoured Corps’ entertainment ensemble.
Highlights of his stage credits include Danton’s Death, Spanish Orchard, and Fool for Love with Habima National Theatre; The Condemned of Altona and Play it Again, Sam with Beit Lessin Theatre; Enchanted April, The Comedy of Errors, and The Seagull with Beersheba Theatre, and Metamorphoses with Haifa Theatre.
Highlights of his TV series credits include City Tower, Dolls (‘bubot’), Our Song High (‘tichon ha-shir shelanu’), Asfur, The Missing, and Line in the Sand.
Highlights of his film credits include Weekend Circles (Idit Shehori, 1980), Bar 51 (Amos Guttman, 1986), Burning Memory (Yossi Somer, 1989), Wanted: Four-Legged Husband (Shimon Azulai, 1993), Mars Turkey (aka Clean Sweep) (Oded Davidoff, 2001), A Dangerous Dance (Menahem Golan, 2007), Kidon (Emmanuel Naccache, 2013), Laugh Lines (Pini Eden, 2015), Mr. Predictable (Roee Florentin, 2016), Our Father (Meni Yaish, 2016), and Hummus Full Trailer (Assaf Kobrovsky, 2022).
His son is rap and hip-hop artist Nimrod Reshef.
