Melanie Peres

Melanie Peres (Hebrew מלאני פרס ) ( born December 1, 1971 in Berlin as Melanie Mariam Thanee Frasch (Hebrew מלאני מרים תאני פראש ) ) is a German - Israeli actress, singer and model.

Life

Melanie's parents were hippies, a German father and an Israeli mother. She lived with her ​​father until she was 15 when she emigrated with her mother to Israel. She described the move from Berlin to Nazareth to be very traumatic, because they could no Hebrew and the local mentality did not understand. At 16, she went to a local high school, but went out early since they did not understand a word. Then she went to Tel Aviv, where she worked as a cleaning lady before she started modeling in 1989. She graced the cover of an edition of the magazine Leisha, and entered into the Israeli beauty contest " Face of the 80s", but where they did not win then, but was also without crown a star. She traveled in the 1990s by the world as a model until 1997. Thereafter, in 1998, she began singing with a duet with Yahli Sobol. Since 2000 she works as an actress, but mostly as a supporting actress in movies and various TV series. In Eitan Zurs debut film Hitparzut X aka Naomi (after the bestselling novel by writer and theater director Edna Mazia ) they had a breakthrough in the lead role as Naomi. Naomi was selected for the 67th International Film Festival of Venice ( 2010) in the category Critiques 25th Week.

Filmography (selection)

• Ha - Burganim ( TV series)
• Aball'e (2001)
• The Syrian Bride (2004)
• Hitpartzut X ( 2010)