Maya Maron

Maya Maron (Hebrew: מאיה מרון; born (1980-05-12)May 12, 1980) is an Israeli actress, an Ophir Award winner.

Her mother, an office manager, was born in Siberia, where her family fled from Poland before World War II.

In 1996, during the summer vacation between ninth and tenth grade, she was scouted in the Arad music festival and cast in Ari Folman's film Saint Clara, later she was nominated for the Ophir Award as a supporting actress in that film.

She played the lead role of the daughter struggling to come to terms with her new position as head of the crumbling household, after mother Orly Silbersatz Banai shunts the task.

[1] In 2005 she again played the lead in a Sam Spiegel student movie dubbed Whatever It Takes (Be'einaim Atsumot), as the fragile and self-destructive partner in a lesbian relationship.