Maya Dagan

Maya Dagan was born in 1975 in Bnei Brak

Maya Dagan was born and raised in Bnei Brak, the daughter of Tzipi and Itzik Dagan. She has two older brothers, Guy and Assaf. In the army she served in the Nahal troupe and the IDF Theater.

She studied acting at the Beit Zvi school and then performed at the Sifriya Theater. She joined the Beit Lessin Theater, where her role in A Letter to Noah earned her the Israel Theater Prize as promising actress in 2001. She later appeared there in musicals such as Chicago, Guys and Dolls and Mike.

On television she appeared in comedy and drama series, including Domino and Our Song, and dubbed animated films. In 2010 she played a Holocaust survivor in Avi Nesher's film The Matchmaker and won the Ophir Award for Best Actress.

In 2016 she left Beit Lessin for the Cameri Theater, a move that drew controversy, to star in Funny Girl. The role won her a second Israel Theater Prize. She returned to Beit Lessin in 2022 and finished 3rd in The Singer in the Mask in 2025.