Neta Riskin

Neta Riskin

Born: October 28, 1976
in Israel
Neta Riskin is an Israeli actress and journalist. Best known for her role as Giti Weiss in the series Shtisel. Riskin coached Israeli-born American actress Natalie Portman to speak Hebrew with an Israeli accent for A Tale of Love and Darkness. Riskin was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to secular Jewish architect parents.

Movies for Neta Riskin...

Title: East Side
Character: Esti
Released: February 19, 2023
Type: TV
East Side follows Momi, an ex-Secret Service agent-turned-fixer who plays by his own rules as he brokers shady property deals between the Arab residents of East Jerusalem, and the powerful Jewish groups trying to take control of the area by whatever means possible. Brooding and well-connected, Momi slips between communities with ease. But behind his cool facade, the deadly consequences of his double-dealing are taking their toll, and at the center of his world is 18-year-old autistic daughter Maya.
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Title: The Spy
Character: Tova
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Longing
Title: Longing
Character: Yael
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever.
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Damascus Cover
Title: Damascus Cover
Character: Yael
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: Movie
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
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Shelter
Title: Shelter
Character: Naomi
Released: October 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
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Saving Neta
Title: Saving Neta
Character: שרונה
Released: June 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Title: Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.
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Title: Sara Stein: From Berlin to Tel Aviv
Character: Ronit Levi
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: TV
As a criminal investigator of Jewish descent working in Berlin, Sara Stein was used to operating independently of everyone else. Her keen instincts and sound judgement enabled her to navigate sure-footedly through many sensitive cases. But it was not until she found herself investigating the murder of an Israeli DJ that politics and religion played such an important role in her life. Now facing new challenges as a detective in Tel Aviv, Sara continues to strive for truth and justice while dreaming of peace for her beloved new home, Israel.
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Title: False Flag
Character: Anat Kedmi
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: TV
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Title: A Tale of Love and Darkness
Character: Haya
Released: September 3, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
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Suicide
Title: Suicide
Character: Russian Woman
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret.
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Title: Very Important Person
Character: Elie Shine
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: TV
Yehuda Levy, a famous actor and revered fear mature 35-year-old, suffers from panic attacks, binge eating and mood swings after a difficult separation. It meets the latest candidate to be a girl his wife and the two formed a special bond.
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Anywhere Else
Title: Anywhere Else
Character: Noa
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
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Title: Shtisel
Character: Giti Weiss
Released: June 29, 2013
Type: TV
Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.
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Returnee
Title: Returnee
Released: July 1, 2010
Type: Movie
God's voice speaks to A. Having left religion, his home and his family, A. reflects on how good a person he is.