Miri Fabian

Miri Fabian was born in 1943 in Czechoslovakia

Miri Fabian was born on 30 August 1943 in a camp for Slovak Jews in Nováky. With her mother and two siblings she narrowly escaped the last transport to Auschwitz, and her father, who fought with the partisans, found the family after the war. In 1949 the family moved to Israel and later settled in Rosh Pinna.

She studied acting at Beit Zvi in Ramat Gan. Her stage career began in 1966, while she was still a student, as a replacement actress with the Bamat HaSahkanim group. She went on to appear in plays by Yosef Mundi, Hanoch Levin and others.

In film, she starred with Yaron London in A Married Couple in 1983 and won the Kinor David award for the role. In 1993 she played Chaja Dresner in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. She also appeared in Jellyfish and in the TV soap opera Deadly Money.

She is married to chemical engineer David Bloch, and they have a son and a daughter. Her brother was killed in the Six-Day War in 1967.