Born and raised in Israel

Made stage debut in an Israeli production of "Dangerous Liaisons"

Won an Israeli Academy Award at age eighteen for her performance in "Over the Ocean"

Moved to NYC to study acting

Made American feature acting debut in Roland Emmerich's "Stargate"

Featured in the Jim Jarmusch Western "Dead Man"

Played a florist who finds herself unhappily carrying the child of her psychotic former lover in the drama "Invasion of Privacy" (aired on HBO)

Had a small role in Wim Wenders' "The End of Violence"

Played the woman pursued by bachelor pals David Schwimmer and Jason Lee in in the romantic comedy "Kissing a Fool"

Featured in the independent drama "Animals"

Acted in "The Young Girl and the Monsoon"

Guest starred on the premiere episode of the NBC crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"

Had a featured acting role in the independent drama "Bad Seed"

Played beautiful storyteller Scheherezade in the ABC miniseries "Arabian Nights"

Co-starred in the USA Network presentation "After the Storm", based on the Ernest Hemingway short story

Starred in the suspenseful romance "Minotaur" (aired on Cinemax)

Guested again on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", playing twins

Starred in "Uprising", an NBC miniseries chronicling the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Starred in the Jewish comedy "When Do We Eat?"