Shira Geffen

Shira Geffen was born in 1971 in Ramat Gan

Shira Geffen was born in Ramat Gan in 1971 and grew up in Ramot HaShavim and Beit Yitzhak. Her parents are the editor and producer Nurit Geffen and the writer Yehonatan Geffen, and her brother is the singer Aviv Geffen. She is married to the author Etgar Keret, and they have one son.

After her army service as an education NCO, she studied acting at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio.

She acted in films such as Mr. Baum by Assi Dayan, a role that earned her an Ophir Award nomination, and in television series. She wrote children's books, starting with Once the Sea Was Soup in 1993, and wrote for children's television. She also wrote and directed plays, and The Insulted Heart won a prize at the Haifa Children's Theater Festival.

With Keret she made Jellyfish, which won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2007. Her film Self Made, about an Israeli woman and a Palestinian woman, was shown at Cannes in 2014. In 2014 she joined other filmmakers in a letter calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza.