Biography
With a demo reel in Hebrew and somewhat tentative English skills, Avital nonetheless quickly landed her first starring role after being discovered while waitressing on Manhattan's West Side. She was cast as the female lead in Roland Emmerich's sci-fi epic "Stargate" (1994), a role that would win the young actress much attention from the start. Working steadily throughout the mid- to late-1990s, Avital was featured alongside Johnny Depp in Jim …
Career Milestones
2006 | Starred in the Jewish comedy "When Do We Eat?" | |
2001 | Starred in "Uprising", an NBC miniseries chronicling the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising | |
2001 | Guested again on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", playing twins | |
2001 | Starred in the suspenseful romance "Minotaur" (aired on Cinemax) | |
2001 | Co-starred in the USA Network presentation "After the Storm", based on the Ernest Hemingway short story | |
2000 | Played beautiful storyteller Scheherezade in the ABC miniseries "Arabian Nights" | |
2000 | Had a featured acting role in the independent drama "Bad Seed" | |
1999 | Guest starred on the premiere episode of the NBC crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" | |
1999 | Acted in "The Young Girl and the Monsoon" | |
1998 | Featured in the independent drama "Animals" | |
1998 | Played the woman pursued by bachelor pals David Schwimmer and Jason Lee in in the romantic comedy "Kissing a Fool" | |
1997 | Had a small role in Wim Wenders' "The End of Violence" | |
1996 | Played a florist who finds herself unhappily carrying the child of her psychotic former lover in the drama "Invasion of Privacy" (aired on HBO) | |
1995 | Featured in the Jim Jarmusch Western "Dead Man" | |
1994 | Made American feature acting debut in Roland Emmerich's "Stargate" | |
1992 | Moved to NYC to study acting | |
1991 | Won an Israeli Academy Award at age eighteen for her performance in "Over the Ocean" | |
1989 | Made stage debut in an Israeli production of "Dangerous Liaisons" | |
| Born and raised in Israel | ||