Niv Sultan

Niv Sultan was born in 1992 in Jerusalem

Niv Sultan was born on September 16, 1992, in Jerusalem and grew up in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood. Her parents, Meirav and Shlomo Sultan, are Jews of Moroccan origin. She has two sisters and a brother, the actor Ben Sultan.

She attended the TALI elementary school in Bayit VeGan and then the May Boyar high school in Jerusalem, where she studied theater. After her army service she studied acting for 3 years at the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio in Tel Aviv.

Her acting career began in 2013 on the Disney Channel youth series Summer Break Diaries. She later appeared in La Famiglia, Wild Horses and She Has It. In 2020 she took the lead role of Tamar Rabinyan in Tehran, learning Persian for 4 months, and won the Israeli Television Academy Award for her performance.

In 2022 she appeared in the American western series That Dirty Black Bag and the Israeli series Traitor. She played Ruth in Matchmaking 2 in 2024 and led the Channel 12 series Murder at the Dead Sea in 2025. She co-owns the jewelry brand Sultana with her sisters and has been a Samsung brand ambassador in Israel since 2021.

She met actor Maor Schweitzer in 2018 on the set of She Has It, and they married in March 2022. Their son was born in May 2025.