Avshalom Pollak

Avshalom Pollak was born in 1970 in Haifa

Avshalom Pollak was born in Haifa on October 5, 1970. His father was the actor Yossi Pollak. His brothers are the political activist Yonatan Pollak and the film director Shai Carmeli Pollak.

He acted as a child in the 1980 film The Real Game. He trained as a classical actor at the Nissan Nativ acting studio in Tel Aviv. He then worked at the Habima, Cameri, Gesher and Haifa theaters, with roles such as Romeo and Tuzenbach.

On screen he played Tomer in the 1998 series Florentin and appeared in the film Gentila in 1997. In 2021 he played the lead in Nadav Lapid's film Ahed's Knee, which shared the Jury Prize at Cannes. He was nominated for an Ophir Award for that role.

From 1994 he created works with choreographer Inbal Pinto, his former partner. Together they directed, choreographed and designed dance pieces such as Oyster and Wallflower, and operas such as Armide. After Pinto left in 2018, the company became the Avshalom Pollak Dance Theatre, and he announced its closure in February 2025 because of financial difficulties.

In 2021 he made a cycle of 12 video-dance works called Liquid Season with musician Umitaro Abe. In 2023 he choreographed Opera Bastarda in Brussels. In 2025 he directed a stage version of the manga Chi in Tokyo.