Anat Atzmon
Israeli actress
Anat Atzmon (Hebrew: ענת עצמון; born 27 November 1958) is an Israeli actress and singer.
Biography
Atzmon was born and raised in Tel Aviv. She is the daughter of the theater actor Shmulik Atzmon, a native of Biłgoraj, Poland, who survived the Holocaust by fleeing east into the Soviet Union. In her childhood her father exposed her to the Yiddish culture.
Atzmon studied at the Aleph High School of Arts Tel Aviv (תיכון א' לאמנויות תל אביב). In 1976 Atzmon was drafted and she subsequently served in the IDF theater. After her military service Atzmon learned to act in the Tel Aviv University. Atzmon became widely famous in Israel during 1978, when she played the main character of Nili in Boaz Davidson's cult youth film Lemon Popsicle (Eskimo Limon).
Following the enormous success of Lemon Popsicle and the publicity given to Atzmon, in 1979 she starred in Avi Nesher's film Dizengoff 99. This film also won a phenomenal success and evidently also become an Israeli cult film.
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