Adi Lev

Adi Lev was born in 1953 in Farcașa

Adi Lev was born on 20 August 1953 in Romania. She moved to Israel with her family in 1969, at 16.

She studied theater at Tel Aviv University and at Beit Zvi. In the 1970s she also took an acting workshop in New York.

Lev began her career at Habima Theatre and later acted at the Cameri Theatre, where she played Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables in 1999. In 1984 she staged a one-woman show at Tzavta, and she wrote a solo play with director Sofi Moskowitz. On screen she worked often with Ze'ev Revach and appeared in Broken Wings and The Rubber Merchants.

From the late 1990s she focused on dubbing. She gave Hebrew voices to characters in Monsters, Inc., Lilo & Stitch, Chicken Run and Tarzan II.

In 1981 she married musician and actor Peter Wertheimer, and they had a son and a daughter. She was diagnosed with cancer in September 2005 and died on 12 March 2006. She was buried in Herzliya.