Cast & creator
Rita Zohar
Best known for JAG, Monk, ER
Rita Zohar is an actress with a career spanning film, television, and theater. She was born during World War II in a concentration camp in Balta (then part of the Kingdom of Romania). She emigrated to Israel with her mother in the 1950s and began acting at the Cameri Theatre, performing in Yiddish. In the 1980s she moved to the United States and appeared on television series including Quincy M.E., St. Elsewhere, and Cagney & Lacey. Her film credits from that period include Daniel (1983), Amadeus (1984), The Deliberate Stranger (1986), and Lady in White (1988). She won the Israeli Film Academy’s Best Actress award for Laura Adler’s Last Love Affair (1990). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
19
film credits
11
television credits
30
1982–2025 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (30)
Showing 30 of 30 credits
JAG
Mrs. Minas
1995
Monk
Mrs. Zlatavich
2002
ER
Patient's Wife
1994
High Potential
Miriam Weisman
2024
St. Elsewhere
Vera Anya
1982
7th Heaven
Charlotte Kerjesz
1996
Hunters
Esther Schwartzman
2020
Little America
2020
Grotesquerie
Mumbling Hospital Patient
2024
Waterworld
Atoller
1995
Eleanor the Great
Bessie
2025
The Deliberate Stranger
Eleanor Rose
1986
Final Analysis
Dr. Grusin
1992
Roses Are for the Rich
Daisy
1987
Lady in White
Mrs. Agnes Cilak
1988
Bella Mafia
Sister Giuliana
1997
The Deliberate Stranger
Eleanor Rose
1986
A Call to Remember
Renya Weiss
1997
Daniel
Grandmother
1983
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Peter's Mother
1996
From the Dead of Night
Elena
1989
Roses Are for the Rich
Daisy
1987
Tree #3
Nurit
2019
The Disappearance of Christina
Anna
1993
Young Harry Houdini
Mrs. Weiss
1987
The Execution
1985
Unspoken
Mrs. Helfgott
2024
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
Yolanda Moskowitz
2011
The Last Love of Laura Adler
Laura
1990
Porcelain Unicorn
Older Woman
2010