Occupation Actor, Voice actor Name Yehezkel Lazarov | Role Actor Education Thelma Yellin | |
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Born 8 February 1974 (age 50) ( 1974-02-08 ) Tel Aviv, Israel Movies and TV shows The Kindergarten Teacher, The Debt, The World is Funny, Shemesh, The Shelter Similar People Nadav Lapid, Ari Folman, Assaf Bernstein, Jonathan Bar Giora, Shemi Zarhin | ||
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Yehezkel Lazarov (Hebrew: יחזקאל לזרוב Y'ḥezeqel Lazarov, born 8 February 1974) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, dancer and choreographer. He played in Three Mothers next to Miri Mesika and The Debt.
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Biography
Lazarov was born in Tel Aviv in a religious Jewish family with roots in Bukhara and Bulgaria. He began to dance at the age of eight and learned at the Telma Yelin high school in Giv'atayim. He was drafted to the Israel Defense Forces and served in a military entertainment ensemble. After his discharge in 1993, he spent four years in the Bat Sheva ballet ensemble. He studied in Paris and later performed at the "Actors' Center" in London. In 1998 he became known with a role in the movie "Forbidden love". In 2001 he joined the Gesher theatre in Jaffa, where he played in "Midsummer Night's Dream" and in adaptations for theatre of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novels "Shosha", "The Slave", in the show "Variations for Theatre and Orchestra", based upon older Russian romances and songs from the Czarist and Soviet period, in the Brecht and Weil's "The threepennies Opera" and others.
Lazarov also provided the voice for a character in 2008 Golden Globe-winning animated documentary Waltz with Bashir.
Education
Graduated from Thelma Yellin Art School and served in the IDF Entertainment Ensemble. After completing his service in 1993, he joined the Bat Sheva Dance Company for four years. He studied theater at the Actors’ Centre in London before joining “Gesher” Theater (for 5 years) and the Cameri Theater (for 7 years) as an actor, director and choreographer. Lazarov has played leading roles in numerous films and television productions. As a visual artist, Lazarov has shown photography and video-art works in several gallery exhibitions. He has written and directed three plays: “Hezi”, “Radio Heaven” and most recently, “Igloo”, which premièred at the Israel Festival 2013. Lazarov has written and directed two short films, “Lashabiya” and “No Lifeguard”, which have been screened to much acclaim at several intentional film festivals. He has also acted as the curator and artistic director of several art exhibitions in Tel Aviv.
Career
Lazarov was born on February 8, 1974 in Tel-Aviv. He started to perform when he was 8 years old in many musicals as a Tap dancer. He studied at Thelma Yelin Art High School, and served in a Military Entertainment Air Force Ensemble as a singer. In 1993, he joined the Bat-Sheva Contemporary Ballet Dance Company(Artistic director-Ohad Naharin) till 1997 ("Anafaza", "Mabool", "Zina", "Yag", "Kir" and more). He studied theatre at the 'Actors Center' in London 2001. Lazarov joined the 'Gesher Theatre' at 2001 and 'Cameri Theatre' in 2007. Lazarov is an In House Choreographer at Gesher and Cameri Theatres.