Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zurer was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv

Ayelet Zurer was born on 28 June 1969 in Tel Aviv and grew up in the city's Shikun Dan neighborhood. Her mother was born in Czechoslovakia and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a convent. Her father was born in Israel.

As a teenager she studied theater at a municipal high school in Tel Aviv and sang in the Tel Aviv Scouts band. After the army she studied acting for three years at the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio. She then studied acting in New York.

She returned to Israel in 1991 and acted in the teen drama Inyan Shel Zman and the series Florentine. In 2003 she won the Ophir Award for Best Actress for Nina's Tragedies. She also won Israeli Television Academy awards for BeTipul and Hostages.

Her work abroad began with Steven Spielberg's Munich. She later appeared in Angels & Demons, Man of Steel and Ben-Hur, and played Vanessa Fisk in Daredevil. In Israel she acted in Shtisel and Losing Alice.

She is married to surfing instructor Gilad Londovski. The couple have a son and live in Los Angeles.