Daniella Kertesz

Acting

Daniella Kertesz

Born

1989-03-11 (37)

Place of birth

Jerusalem, Israel

Known for

Acting

Credits

12 titles

Daniella Kertesz (דניאלה קרטס‎ ) is an Israeli actress who achieved international prominence for her breakout Hollywood film role alongside Brad Pitt in the global blockbuster zombie thriller World War Z (2013). Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, into a Jewish family, Kertesz began her acting career in Israeli television and theatre. She built a solid foundation starring in prominent local television series, including the popular teen drama AD 101, the thriller series Masks, and the acclaimed Israeli drama Ha-Metim (The Dead) and Custody. Her major turning point came when she was cast as Segen, a fierce and loyal Israeli soldier and military escort who assists Brad Pitt's character durin…

Known for

World War Z poster
6.9

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

World War Z

2013

Shtisel poster
7.9

Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.

Shtisel

2013

Loving Anna poster
8.0

Menashe never thought that he would love again. For the past decade, he has been the widowed father to four bright and sensitive children. When his kids surprise him with a computer for his birthday, he has no idea that with a few simple clicks he will be introduced to the woman who makes him feel young again… Simply, Anna. Anna is half Menashe’s age, a beautiful and haunting Ukrainian woman searching for love, and for a new life. When Menashe brings Anna home, his simple life becomes complicated by jealousy, betrayal, and even a romantic rivalry for Anna with his two sons. Her beauty and mysteriousness shakes his family as well as the all town.

Loving Anna

2008

Autonomies poster
5.7

In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular.

Autonomies

2018

Incitement poster
6.6

A depiction of the lead-up to the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin through the worldview of his assassin, Yigal Amir.

Incitement

2019

AfterDeath poster
4.4

Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...

AfterDeath

2015

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 4 titles

Series credits

Shtisel poster
7.9

Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.

Shtisel

2013

Shtisel poster
7.9

Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.

Shtisel

2013

Loving Anna poster
8.0

Menashe never thought that he would love again. For the past decade, he has been the widowed father to four bright and sensitive children. When his kids surprise him with a computer for his birthday, he has no idea that with a few simple clicks he will be introduced to the woman who makes him feel young again… Simply, Anna. Anna is half Menashe’s age, a beautiful and haunting Ukrainian woman searching for love, and for a new life. When Menashe brings Anna home, his simple life becomes complicated by jealousy, betrayal, and even a romantic rivalry for Anna with his two sons. Her beauty and mysteriousness shakes his family as well as the all town.

Loving Anna

2008

Autonomies poster
5.7

In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular.

Autonomies

2018