Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy was born in 1982 in Tel Aviv

Dana Ivgy was born in Tel Aviv in 1982 and grew up there. She is the daughter of actors Irit Sheleg and Moshe Ivgy. As a teenager she studied at the Open Democratic School in Jaffa.

She acted as a child, appearing with her father in the 1992 film Angels in the Wind. In 2005 she finished her studies at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio. She and her classmates founded the Tziporela ensemble.

In 2004 she played the lead in Keren Yedaya's film Or and won the Ophir Award for Best Actress. In 2014 she won both Ophir acting awards, for Zero Motivation and for Next to Her. Her other films include Broken Wings, The Secrets and Jaffa.

On television she played Oshrit Asulin in the crime series The Arbitrator from 2007 to 2014, alongside her father. In 2021 she won the Israeli Television Academy Award for her role as Eti Alon in the series Me'ila.

She is married to the artist Itamar Shamshoni, and they have 2 sons. She lives in the Shapira neighborhood of Tel Aviv.