Moshe Ivgy is a Moroccan-born Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i actor and director.

Biography

Moshe Ivgy was born in Casablanca

Casablanca

Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...

, Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

. He was married to actress Irit Sheleg. Their daughter Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy is an Israeli actress and the daughter of actor, Moshe Ivgy.-Career:As a child, Ivgy appeared in several television and film productions...

 is also an actress. After divorcing Irit, he married Orit, with whom he has two children, Ella and Lily.

In 2005, Ivgy was voted the 112th-greatest Israeli of all time in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet

Ynet

Ynet is the most popular Israeli news and general content website. It is owned by the same conglomerate that operates Yediot Ahronot, the country's secondleading daily newspaper...

 to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

Ivgy directed And the Third Day. In 2009, he co-starred with his daughter Dana in Hayu Leilot.

Filmography

• Munich
  Munich (film)
  Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation attacks after the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September terrorist group during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film stars Eric Bana and was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg...
  
   (2005)
• Medurat Hashevet (2004)
• Aaron Cohen's Debt
  Aaron Cohen's Debt
  Aaron Cohen's Debt is a non-linear, fact based 1999 Israeli film starring Moshe Ivgy as Aaron Cohen, a father abruptly taken into custody at his birthday party by police for one child-support payment which he does not believe he owes. Despite his frail health and his daughter's frantic attempts to...
  
   (1999)
• Day After Day (Yom Yom, 1998)
• Love Sick (Hole Ahava B'Shikun Gimel, 1995)
• The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (Nikmato Shel Itzik Finkelstein, 1993)
• Cup Final
  Cup Final (film)
  Cup Final is a 1991 Israeli film set during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel.-Plot:A young Israeli soldier, Cohen, is kidnapped by a group of Palestinian fighters who hold him as an hostage during the conflict...
  
   (Gmar Gavi'a, 1991)
• Bread (Lehem, 1986)
• Big Shots
  Big Shots (film)
  Big Shots is a 1987 American comedy adventure film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Ricky Busker and Darius McCrary.-Plot:An 11 year old boy from Hinsdale, Illinois named Obie Dawkins is out fishing with his father, who tells him about the birds and the bees. All the while Obie shows...
  
  , a.k.a. Under the Nose (Mitahat La'af, 1982)
• Hayu Leilot (There Were Nights), 2009

Israeli Academy Awards

• 2004, Nominated, Best Actor—Campfire (Medurat Hashevet)
• 2004, Won, Best Supporting Actor—Metallic Blues
• 2000, Nominated, Best Supporting Actor—The Investigation Must Go On (Haboleshet Hokeret)

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