Rama Messinger

Rama Messinger was born in 1968 in Ramat Ef'al

Messinger was born in 1968 and grew up in Ramat Ef'al. She was named after her maternal uncle, Rami Gil, an Israeli Air Force pilot who fell in 1967.

She studied at the Thelma Yellin High School. After her army service she studied acting at the Beit Zvi school.

She acted in many plays, mainly at Habima, and also at Beit Lessin, Haifa Theater and Beersheba Theater. She won Israel Theater Prizes, including actress of the year for Kol Katan in 1999, and the Rosenblum Prize for The Servant of Two Masters. She sang in musicals and concerts, directed her first play in 2006, and released her debut album Rama in 2012.

On television she hosted children's programs and acted in comedies and dramas, including Alifim in 2011. From 1993 she dubbed animated films into Hebrew, voicing Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, Ariel in The Little Mermaid and Dory in Finding Nemo.

She lived in Bnei Atarot, was married to Aric Avigdor and had 3 children. She died of cancer in 2015 at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.