Meital Dohan Bio - Biography

Name Meital Dohan
Height
Naionality Israeli
Date of Birth 24-August-1979
Place of Birth Ra'anana, Israel
Famous for Acting
Meital Dohan is an Israeli comedian, stage, television and film actress, singer, and playwright known in the U.S. for her recurring role as Yael Hoffman in the Showtime series Weeds, for her role of Abby in the Anthony Neilson play Stitching, and her work on the Sony Pictures web comedy Woke Up Dead. She currently stars in the dramatic thriller Monogamy, directed and co-written by Academy Award nominee Dana Adam Shapiro, alongside Rashida Jones and Chris Messina.

Dohan graduated from Nissan Nativ in 1998, and joined two major theaters. By 2000, she was voted 'Most Promising New Actress' for her work in Best Friends, performed at the Cameri Theater. Since then, she has appeared in several other roles, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. In 2002, Dohan played a role in Bad Children, a part that was written especially for her by the Israeli playwright Edna Mazya. She won an award from the Cameri Theater for this role. Dohan sang and acted in Moving Flesh at the Cameri Theater, a theater play that she directed at Tmuna Theater, and co-wrote the original Revue Love and Sex on the High Holidays with Israeli singer Ivri Lider. Among other roles, Dohan played Layla in God's Sandbox (2002 Manchester film festival winner), and Efrat in Giraffes (2003 Scottsdale Arizona Film Festival winner) – roles that earned her the Israeli Oscar nomination.

In 2008, she appeared in both the Off-Broadway and Los Angeles productions of the play Stitching by controversial British playwright Anthony Neilson and directed by Timothy Haskell, an example of "in-yer-face" theatre, the play sought to confront the audience with shocking and sometimes vulgar depictions of human behavior. In 2009, she appeared in two episodes of the online series "Woke Up Dead" as the character Aurora. For her role in Giraffes she studied French, and for her role in the feature film To Dance (2004), she studied belly dancing.

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