Hana Laszlo
Hanna Laslo (Hebrew חנה לסלאו; born June 14, 1953 in Jaffa ) is an Israeli stand-up comedian, comedienne and actress.
Life
Hanna Laslo was born in 1953 in Jaffa, where she grew up with three other siblings. The daughter of two Auschwitz survivor served from 1972 to 1973 in the Israeli army. There she came during their military service as a member of the musical theater group of southern command with acting in touch. From the mid- 1970s, Laslo was sporadically present with supporting roles in Israeli feature film productions, both in comedies such as Assi Dayan Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1975) and Joel Silbergs Millioner Betzarot (1978), as well as dramas such as Dayan Am Yisrael Hai (1981 ) or Silberberg Kuni Leml B'Kahir (1983). As a cabaret artist and comedian Laslo gained in the 1980s and 1990s through a series of one-woman shows at the Israeli theater prominence with which they later appeared on television, including the figures of the grandmother Zapta and the cleaning woman Clara. For her programs she uses her childhood memories of life in the immigrant neighborhoods of old Jaffa, just as the Holocaust. As a comedic mentor Laslo calls her father, a hatter, who spoke fluent Yiddish and brought her closer to the humor. She was a prize -winning 2004 for her stand-up comedy program More than Hanna Laslo, with whom she had appeared Theatre, among others, in Tel Aviv Givatayim.
Success in the movie Hanna Laslo was first granted in 2003 by Amos Gitai's Alila ensemble film, which reports on the individual stories of people who all live in a shabby apartment building in a suburb of Tel Aviv. For the supporting role of Mali, the divorced wife of a former Israeli army officer who falls in love with a younger man and her adolescent son forgives desertion, it was still the first time nominated in the same year for the price of the Israeli Film Academy. Two years later, Gitai trusted her one of the female lead roles in his drama Free Zone ( 2005), which is located against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict. The part of the feisty Israeli taxi driver Hanna Ben Moshe, which together with a young American woman (played by Natalie Portman ) and a Palestinian woman ( Hiam Abbass ) makes his way into the eponymous free trade zone on the border of Jordan, brought her to the 58. Cannes film Festival the price a best Actress, where they could enforce those against such established actresses as the British woman Charlotte Rampling ( Lemming ) or the US-American Maria Bello ( a History of Violence ). The first victory of an Israeli actress at Cannes devoted Laslo her mother and called in her brief acceptance speech, Israelis and Palestinians to dialogue, to "fix the problems ". In 2007, she was with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe to the ensemble cast of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama A life for a life - whose premiere she attended Adam Resurrected on the 57th International Film Festival of Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
Ophir
- 2003: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Alila
- 2005: nominated for Best Actress for FreeZone
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International Film Festival of Cannes
- 2005: Best Actress for FreeZone