Rami Baruch is a stage, film, and TV actor. Baruch, a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Theatre, has been with the Cameri Theatre – his creative home – since 1986. In 1994, he won first prize at that year’s Theatronetto Festival for his monodrama, The Tiger, which he then spent the next two decades touring across the country.
In 1998, Baruch won the Israeli Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Hanoch Levin’s The Whore From Ohio, which the latter wrote and directed. Then in 2008, he got to take home yet another Israeli Theatre Award – this time for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Thrill my Heart –another Hanoch Levin play, directed by Udi Ben Moshe.
Highlights of his other stage credits include: Rumpelstiltskin, Marriage, Three Sisters, Richard III, An Italian Straw Hat, Caviar and Lentils, The State Comptroller (aka The State Controller – sic), Michael Kohlhaas, The Comedy of Errors, Krum, Ghetto, The Crucible, Bachelors and Bachelorettes, As you Like It, Pollard, Can Two Walk Together?, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, On the Grill, Death of a Salesman, Othello, To Answer the Jewish Question (originally Pour en finir avec la question juive, aka L’être ou pas), Exit the King, and Whoever Wasn’t Born – is Missing Out.
Highlights of his film credits include Soldier of the Night (Dan Wolman, 1984), Smell and Smile (Yehuda Barkan, 1986), The Plumber (Michael Behagen, 1986), The Lover (Michael Bat-Adam, 1986), Prom Queen (Isaac Zepel Yeshurun, 1986), A Place by the Sea (Raphael Rebibo, 1988), Aviya’s Summer (aka The Summer of Aviya) (Eli Cohen, 1988), Hanna’s War (Menachem Golan, 1988), The Song of the Siren (Eytan Fox, 1994), The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan, 2010), Invisible (Michal Aviad, 2011), and Home (Benny Ferdman, 2023).
Highlights of his TV series credits include Keshet and Anan, The Pyjamas, The Island (‘Ha-E’), Juda, and You Should’ve Heard of Us.
Baruch is married to actor Esti Kosowitzki.
