Shmuel Vilozny

Shmuel "Shmulik" Vilozny (Hebrew: שמואל "שמוליק" וילוז'ני; born 10 January 1954) is an Israeli comedian, actor and director as well as a political activist.

However, after several young prominent and promising comedians emerged in his stand-up club, Vilozny starting to minimize the amount of his performances, and began to focus his career on acting in theater and film.

The roles he portrayed in the theater include: Sebastian in "Twelfth Night", Horatio in "Hamlet", Valère in Molière's "The Miser", Truffaldino in "Servant of Two Masters", and more.

In the Beer Sheva Theatre Vilozny played Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Antipholus of Ephesus in "The Comedy of Errors".

During 1987 he starred in "Tel Aviv-Berlin" and "Don't Give a Fuck" (לא שם זין) which was based on a book by the same name by Dan Ben-Amotz.

In 2002 Vilozny played in the TV film "Two minutes from Paradise" ("שתי דקות מפרדייז") directed by Daniel Syrkin.

Two years later Vilozny participated in the second season of the drama series "Seize the Sky" (לתפוס את השמיים), and also hosted the satirical program "Pkakim" (פקקים) on the Israeli sports channel Vilozny was the first in Israel who made the transition from the entertainment scene to municipal politics when he was eventually elected as a member of the Council of the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.