Maya Maron

Maya Maron was born in 1980 in Tel Aviv

Maya Maron was born on May 12, 1980, in Tel Aviv and grew up there on Balfour Street. She is the youngest of 4 siblings. Her mother was an office manager and her father a diamond dealer, and her parents divorced when she was 12.

She studied at the School for the Arts in Tel Aviv. She then majored in theater at Thelma Yellin High School, but after a year moved to Ironi He high school. She was not drafted into the IDF because she was underweight.

In 1996 she was discovered at the Arad music festival and cast in Ari Folman's film Saint Clara. In 1998 she played the lead in Nir Bergman's student film Seahorses. In 2002 she starred in Bergman's Broken Wings and won an Ophir Award for the role.

On television she appeared in Betipul in 2005, The Arbitrator from 2007 to 2014, and the lead role of Weeping Susannah in 2009. She played Strophe in the play Phaedra's Love in 2007. In 2015 she played the painter Hadassah Levi in the second season of Shtisel.

Maron is in a relationship and has a daughter born in 2016 and a son born in 2020. She lives in Moshav Beit She'arim.