Noa Tishby

Noa Tishby was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv

Noa Tishby was born in Tel Aviv in 1975 into a family involved in the founding of Israel. One of her grandfathers helped found one of the first kibbutzim. Her maternal grandfather was the diplomat Hanan Yavor.

She started acting as a child and appeared on television at 15 in 1990. She served in the IDF in the Education Corps troupe.

From 1995 to 1999 she played Dafna Maor on the soap opera Ramat Aviv Gimmel. She played Anita in West Side Story and released an English album with the band Nona in 1997. She also worked as a model and a host.

She moved to Los Angeles and from 2003 appeared on American shows such as Charmed and Nip/Tuck. In 2008 she sold BeTipul to HBO, and she was co-executive producer of its adaptation, In Treatment. Her company Noa's Arc sold more Israeli formats to American networks.

In 2011 she founded Act for Israel, and in 2014 Reality Israel. In 2022 Prime Minister Yair Lapid appointed her Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. She was dismissed in 2023 after speaking out against the judicial reform.