Maya Shoef

Maya Shoef was born in 1988 in Tel Aviv

Maya Shoef was born in 1988 in Tel Aviv, where she grew up. She has one brother. As a girl she wanted to be a veterinarian and later an actress, and she sang in the Tel Aviv Scouts Band.

During her military service she was a soloist in the Mazi band.

In 2008 she played Sharpay Evans in the Israeli version of High School Musical. In 2009 she appeared in the third season of the soap opera Champion, joined the cast of the HOT series Split as Zohar Grin, and took the lead role of Alex Levi in Alex: Pros and Cons. In 2010 she was one of the hosts of the Festigal.

She moved to New York to study acting and graduated from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 2013. After returning to Israel she acted in Dead for a Second and Galis, and in 2017 she appeared in the thriller series Kadabra.

In 2018 she began playing Noa in the musical My Mika at Habima Theatre, based on songs by Yair Rosenblum. She is married to singer Loren Peled and lives in Moshav Magshimim.