Mira Awad

Mira Awad was born in 1975 in Rameh

Mira Awad was born in 1975 in Rameh. Her father, an Arab Christian from the Galilee, is a physician, and her mother, a Bulgarian Christian, is an expert on Slavic languages. Her parents met while her father studied medicine in Bulgaria.

At 16 she was the lead singer of Samana, a band that played Western rock in Arabic. She studied at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. She began acting in theater in 1998.

In 2002 she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. From 2007 to 2013 she played Amal, an Arab lawyer, in the TV comedy Arab Labor. She also worked with the Idan Raichel Project and with the metal band Orphaned Land.

In 2009 she and Noa represented Israel at Eurovision with "There Must Be Another Way", finishing 16th. She was the first Arab to represent Israel there. Her first solo album, Bahlawan, came out the same year, and her second, All My Faces, in 2011.

In 2008 she ran for the Tel Aviv-Yafo city council for Ir LeKulanu. She created the TV series Mona, which aired in 2019 and won her the Shulamit Aloni Prize for 2021. She married Kosta Mogilevych in 2013, and the couple moved to London in 2022.