Itzik Cohen (actor)

Itzhak "Itzik" Cohen (Hebrew: יצחק ״איציק״ כהן; born 9 September 1968) is an Israeli actor, filmmaker, and television producer.

The band helped bring drag into the Israeli mainstream, making appearances in the Uri Pasteur-directed musical All is Legend (alongside Michal Yannai), and the educational television program Return of the Sheriff.

In 2004, he gave, according to Haaretz, "the performance of a lifetime" as Ezra Sapir in Rami Danon and Amnon Levy's Father's Braid.

Cohen continued working in musicals in 2017, and made a return to drag, when he starred as Edna Turnblad in the Israeli adaptation of Hairspray.

[3] That same year, he starred in Ayad Akhtar’s play The Who & The What at the Haifa Theatre, as Afzal, a father desperately struggling to ensure his daughter marries within the faith.

In 2009, Cohen starred in the film A Matter of Size as Herzl, an overweight man who decides to join a sumo wrestling team.