REYMONDE AMSELLEM

Born and raised in Jerusalem to a Moroccan religious family, Reymonde Amsellem is widely recognized as one of the most prominent and respected film and theater actresses in Israel. Over the past two decades, she participated in almost 90 Film, Theatre, and TV productions.

She had her public breakthrough in Ghanem Ghanem (2005) by Haim Buzaglo. Reymonde has won four Israeli Academy Awards and has actively participated in numerous national and international film projects such as The Attack (2012) directed by Ziad Duarie, Seven Minutes in Heaven (2008) directed by Omri Givon, Lebanon (2009) directed by Samuel Maoz, My Lovely

Sister (2011) directed by Marco Carmel, and The Future (2023) directed by Noam Kaplan. In the Film Seven Blessings (2023), winner of 10  Israeli Academy Award awards, her exceptional performance in the leading role earned her the Israeli Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as Best Screenwriter for co-writing the Film’s Screenplay alongside with Eleanor Sela.

Most recently Reymonde featured as Miriam in the Netflix biblical mini-series Testament: The Story of Moses (2024) directed by Benjamin Ross, and has just wrapped the sequel of Matchmaking (2022) directed by Marco Carmel, Israel’s box office blockbuster which had its NY premiere at the 25th NYSJFF.

Reymonde speaks Hebrew, Arabic, French, and English and defines her identity as Jewish, Israeli, Arabic, and Moroccan, while “not being sure on the exact order”. She lives in a pastoral town by Jerusalem, where she dedicatedly raises her two sons.