Ayelet Zurer

She immigrated to Israel in the 1950s.

Her Israeli-born father is of Russian-Jewish descent.

She has described her parents as "working-class people".

Ayelet Zurer (איילת זורר; born June 28, 1969) is an Israeli actress.

She was nominated for awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Israeli Academy Awards and the Israeli Television Academy Awards.

She won Best Actress awards for her roles in the Israeli film Nina's Tragedies and Betipul.

In 1991, she returned to Israel.

In 1992, she starred in the television series Inyan Shel Zman, and in 1993, she played Debbie in the Israeli comedy film Nikmato shel Itzik Finkelstein (Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein).

During this time, she also participated in the cable television show Yetziat Hirum.

In 1997, Zurer played the role of Shira Steinberg in the television show Florentin on Israeli Channel 2.

In 1998, she played the lead in the film Ahava Asura (a.k.a. The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field).

Several Israeli television series followed: in 2000, Zinzana, and in 2002, Shalva and Ha'Block.

In 2001, she starred in the movies Laila Lelo Lola and Kikar Ha'Halomot.

In 2003, she married her surfing instructor, Gilad Londovski.

They have a son and reside in Los Angeles.

In 2003, she starred in Nina's Tragedies, portraying the title character, Nina, a young woman who has to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.

She won an Israeli Academy Award for Best Actress for this role.

In 2004, when she was cast in Steven Spielberg's Munich, she moved with her family to California.

In 2005, she starred in another Israeli television series, Betipul, a drama about a psychologist and his patients' therapy process.

She plays Na'ama Lerner, a patient who starts a romance with the doctor.

The series won her a Best Actress award from the Israeli Television Academy and was remade as the HBO series In Treatment.

The following year Zurer participated in an Israeli sketch comedy television show called Gomrot Holchot that deals with the world of young women, relationships, marriage, sex, and career.

The show is based on the British sketch comedy show Smack the Pony.

Zurer appeared in Munich (2005), where she played Avner Kaufman's wife.

She played a terrorist in the American thriller Vantage Point.

In 2007, she starred in Fugitive Pieces, in which a troubled young Holocaust survivor falls in love with her character.

In April 2008, Zurer was cast as the female lead, Vittoria Vetra, in The Da Vinci Code sequel, Angels & Demons.

She played a nurse who falls in love with the title character in Adam Resurrected (2008).

She played the lead role in the 2011 film Hide Away (a.k.a. "A Year in Mooring"), and played Superman's mother, Lara Lor-Van, in the reboot of the Superman franchise, Man of Steel (2013).

In 2013, Zurer starred in the Israeli series Shtisel as an attractive widow, Elisheva Rotstein.

In her youth, she studied theater as part of a school at the 14th Municipal High School and participated in the Tel Aviv Scouts band.

During her service in the Israel Defense Forces, Zurer was a soldier in the military band of the Northern Command.

After finishing her military service, Zurer studied acting for three years at the Performing Arts Studio founded by Yoram Loewenstein.

She moved to the United States and studied with George Morison at the Actor's Workshop in New York City.

She also portrays Vanessa Marianna-Fisk in Marvel Television's Netflix series Daredevil (2015–2018).

Ayelet Zurer was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family.

Her mother was born in Czechoslovakia and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a convent.

In 2015, she starred in Daredevil as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk, an art gallery owner.

The series is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Zurer reprised her role in the third season (2018) of Daredevil.