Anat Atzmon

Anat Atzmon was born in 1958 in Tel Aviv

Atzmon was born in Tel Aviv on 27 November 1958 and grew up there. Her father is the theater actor Shmulik Atzmon, who survived the Holocaust by fleeing into the Soviet Union. He raised her with Yiddish culture.

She attended an arts high school in Tel Aviv. She was drafted in 1976 and served in the IDF theater. She then studied acting at Tel Aviv University.

In 1978 she played Nili in Boaz Davidson's Lemon Popsicle, and in 1979 she starred in Avi Nesher's Dizengoff 99. Through the 1980s she acted in films such as Dead End Street, Summertime Blues and Pact of Love, where she appeared with her father. She also acted at the Be'er Sheva Theater, Beit Lessin and Yiddishpiel.

Her first album, Bachalom, came out in 1989, and she competed in the Kdam Eurovision that year and again in 1992. After losing in 1992 to Dafna Dekel, she sued over the length of Dekel's song and lost the case. In 1999 she published a children's book.

Later television work includes City Tower in 2001 and Danny Hollywood in 2008. She married actor Dan Turgeman in 1989, and they had two children before divorcing in 2003. Her partner is musician Danny Sanderson.