Natasha Manor

Natasha Manor was born in 1958 in Ulyanovsk

Natasha Manor was born in 1958 in Ulyanovsk, then in the Soviet Union. Her father worked in a factory and her mother taught German.

She earned a master's degree in law and interned at the prosecutor's office in Ulyanovsk. She then studied film criticism in Moscow before turning to acting, first in Saint Petersburg and later at the theater academy in Moscow. There she completed studies in acting and directing and received a gold medal.

From 1986 to 1990 she worked at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow. In 1991 she immigrated to Israel with her husband, director Igor Vitlovich, following director Yevgeny Arye. She joined the actors who founded the Gesher Theater and acted in its first play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

After her divorce, she married architect Gad Manor in 1993. She starred in the 2003 film Condominium, about the Dolphinarium attack, and won an award at the San Francisco festival. Since 2002 she has hosted the talk show Seven and Forty on Russian-language TV.

Since 2000 she has sung Russian and gypsy romances and Russian folk songs with a band across Israel. She also taught and directed at the Beit Zvi acting school.