Shoshana Duer

Shoshana Duer was an Israeli theater and film actress who performed for decades with Habima.

1908 to 2000Decades of roles at HabimaFirst graduate accepted into HabimaMother roles in Israeli films

Died: 13 January 2000, Tel Aviv
Occupation: actor, film actor, stage actor

Shoshana Duer was born in 1908 in Damascus

Duer was born in 1908 in Damascus. As a girl she appeared in plays and social events of the Maccabi HaTzair youth movement.

In 1925 she immigrated during the Fourth Aliyah. She joined the drama studio of HaNoar HaOved, led by Yitzhak Moshe Daniel, and later the Habima acting studio, led by Tzvi Friedland.

In 1932 she became the first graduate accepted into Habima, and in 1947 she joined its actors' collective. She played dozens of roles there, mostly supporting parts, in plays such as "The Marranos" and "Oedipus Rex." She also took part in radio dramas on Kol Yisrael.

On screen she appeared in films such as Hill 24 Doesn't Answer, Three Days and a Child and Little Shraga, and in the TV series Michel Ezra Safra and Sons.

She had a son and a daughter. Duer died in January 2000. A street in Jaffa is named after her.