Dina Doron

Dina Doron was born in 1930 in Afula

Dina Doron was born Dina Peskin in Afula to Emanuel and Zivia Peskin. She grew up in the Borochov neighborhood and attended the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. As a child she appeared in plays at the Habima Theatre.

After acting in the 1952 film The Faithful City, she went to New York to study acting. She studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, and trained in dance at the Martha Graham studio.

She played Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway for about a year and a half. Back in Israel in 1958, she joined productions at the Cameri and Habima theaters. Her lead in the musical Irma La Douce, opposite Arik Einstein, earned her the Kinor David award.

She acted in films and television, including The Glass Cage and the series Moses opposite Burt Lancaster. From 1982 to 1985 she performed a one-woman play by Dario Fo, directed by her husband Ilan Eldad. She has also run an acting studio and dubbed animated films.

In 2016 she played the grandmother in Billy Elliot the Musical. In 2017 she voiced Mamá Coco in the Hebrew version of Coco, and in 2020 she appeared in the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.