Moran Atias

Moran Atias (Mor-AHN Ah-tee-AHS; Hebrew: מורן אטיאס; born 9 April 1981) is an Israeli actress and model.

She gained fame in the Italian films Gas, Oggi sposi, and Mother of Tears.

Her plan to serve as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces was frustrated by a diagnosis of meningitis at age 17.

In 2008, she was cast in the role of the illegal immigrant Inez in the drama series Crash, based on Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film.

[citation needed] In 2012, she was cast in the critically acclaimed Israeli television series Allenby Street, directed by Assaf Bernstein of Fauda fame, where she played the stripper Mika, a formerly Orthodox Jewish girl who avoids her childhood secret while living a complex nightlife.

[dubious – discuss][6] Her work on the film The Next Three Days led to Third Person, a project that Atias pitched and helped develop with Paul Haggis.

[4] Atias participated in the Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) volunteer mission with Sean Penn following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, in which she assisted the evacuation of refugees to Florida.

In November 2010, she hosted and organized a charity event for APJ in New York, with proceeds going to the first free high school for the children of the slums of Haiti.