Maya Dagan

Acting

Maya Dagan

A very prominent actress, comedian and TV host, Maya Dagan has a long list of appearances in Israeli theater, film and television. She has acted many times on the stage of Beit Lessin Theater, where she performed in the musicals Chicago and Guys and Dolls and Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. In 1995 she received the Israeli Theater Prize for promising actress of the year. Maya has appeared in many TV shows alongside Israelis biggest and most famous actors. In 2010 she was the Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for her role in Avi Nesher’s hit THE MATCHMAKER.

Acting credits

Mazel Tov poster
NR

At a banquet hall in Israel, at the height of a war, Adam Weizmann’s Bar Mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and on the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam takes a crucial step toward coming to terms with his sexuality.

Mazel Tov

2021

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NR

Saul is a divorced man living in solitude. After five years in which he has not met his father Shimon, he decides to visit him in Haifa. The reunion stirs up old disputes and Saul blames his father for all his troubles. As a result, the father and his partner Betty, an expert in alternative therapies using magic stones and oils, decide to treat the underworld. Will the happiness of Shimon and Betty's home and the treatment he undergoes make Saul become a more optimistic person, repair his relationship with his ex-wife and his daughter and open up to a new love?

Above the Ground

2014

The Other Story poster
6.5

Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.

The Other Story

2018

The Matchmaker poster
7.1

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.

The Matchmaker

2010

Kapo in Jerusalem poster
7.0

An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on a true story.

Kapo in Jerusalem

2015