Meskie Shibru-Sivan

Meskie Shibru-Sivan was born in 1967 in Addis Ababa

Shibru was born in Addis Ababa and grew up there in a family of 8 children. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse and midwife. Her mother was a Prisoner of Zion who spent about 2 years in an Ethiopian prison for helping Jews reach Israel.

In 1985 she immigrated to Israel with her sister, officially on a scholarship to study computers. She lived at Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzhak and learned Hebrew in an ulpan, and the rest of her family followed her later. She studied acting at the Nissan Nativ acting studio and also attended the David Greenberg school of film and theater.

She has appeared in many plays, including solo shows in 1994 and 2006. On screen she acted in the 1996 film Who's the Father, the series Zinzana, and the 2005 film Go, Live and Become. From 2017 she played Almito Chelchao in the series Nevsu.

She also teaches and directs theater. In 2015 she opened an acting studio in Rishon LeZion under her name. She published books in 2013 and 2021.