Ronit Elkabetz Music Video

Elkabetz was born in Beersheba in 1964 to a religious Moroccan Jewish family. She grew up in Kiryat Yam.Her mother was a hairdresser and her father was a postal employee. Her mother spoke French and Arabic, but her father insisted on speaking only Hebrew.She never studied acting and started her career as a model.She divides her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv.
In 1997 she moved to Paris, France, to study in Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil.During that period, she supported herself as a waitress. She did a one-woman show on the life of the choreographer Martha Graham at the Avignon Festival.
In 2001 she starred in the French film Origine contrôlée, and won her second Ophir Award for Late Marriage. In 2003 she teamed again with Gitai on Alila. In 2004 she was nominated for an Ophir Award for Or (My Treasure), and starred in the Israeli legal drama series Franco and Spector.
In 2004 she wrote, directed (with her brother, Shlomi Elkabetz) and starred in the semi-autobiographic film To Take a Wife.