Hana Laslo

Hana Laslo

Born: June 14, 1953
in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Laslo rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of comedy routines in which she portrayed such characters as 'Safta Zapta' and 'Clara the cleaning woman.' In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Free Zone.

Her parents were both Holocaust survivors. In 1972–1973, she served in the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command musical troupe. She was married to Israeli media proprietor Aviv Giladi, with whom she has two sons - Ben and Itamar. Her eldest, Ben Giladi, is a film producer that works for Len Blavatnik's AI-Film and operates between London, LA and Tel-Aviv. Her daughter-in-law is Israeli Actress Romi Aboulafia.

Hanna was also married and divorced businessman Benny Bloch.

Movies for Hana Laslo...

Shikun
Title: Shikun
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: Movie
A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generations come together in highly theatrical encounters, they grapple with the current state of affairs. In a poignant metaphor inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s famous play “Rhinoceros”, some begin to turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.
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Title: You Should've Heard of Us
Character: Nava Kofman
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: TV
Nava and Hava were two young singers in an army singing troupe. 40 years later they meet, the meeting ignites the courage to ask for what they lost.
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Laila in Haifa
Title: Laila in Haifa
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
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Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club
Title: Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
What is going on behind the closed doors of the women-only secret club? The first rule is that love is prohibited. When Sophie falls in love with a mysterious man, she must choose between her last chance for true love to her loyalty to the club.
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Title: Nevsu
Character: Nitza Agassi
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: TV
An Israeli sitcom focusing on a Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli family whose son (Yossi Vasa) is married to a Jewish-Ashkenazi-Israeli woman (Meyrav Feldman). The mixed family navigates the prejudices and tensions involved in raising their five-year old daughter. What ensues is a clash of modern day cultures. Winner of the International Emmy Award for best comedy series 2018.
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Title: Mossad 101
Character: Doris Levi
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: TV
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
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Goiabas
Title: Goiabas
Released: July 2, 2015
Type: Movie
An apartment building in a small village, live human characters and funny puppets. The building moves a new family with their daughter Billie who love to discover the magical corners common building and especially the guava tree. However, there are those who are less like the guava tree, whose fruits fall directly in the territory and is rich mayor who decides to uproot the tree.
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Title: Rinat Beach
Character: Clara
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: TV
"Rinat Beach" is the beach Clara receives as a gift from her uncle and there spends the summer Rinat and her best friends, Guy and Shalechet. They meet at the beach the lifeguard Samson, Pirate Bat Yam and undergo lots of adventures and all with a lot of fun and are happy summer songs.
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Anywhere Else
Title: Anywhere Else
Character: Rachel
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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Tam idan hatmimut
Title: Tam idan hatmimut
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Ruth, a housewife in a suburb of Jerusalem, divided into two parts, appears as pliable as Play-Doh. While she should be taking care of her ten-year-old daughter and the household, her routine is falling apart and she is falling further into depression. Israel is just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967. The historical events echo in the lives of the characters only from a great distance. The female characters within the family wage a more important battle for their own identity. The director intentionally chose the parallel stories of three female protagonists: ten-year-old Michal who is just starting to acknowledge her sexuality, a single university student and Ruth, a trapped housewife.
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Title: Shtisel
Character: Menukha Kenigsberg
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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Bachelor Days Are Over
Title: Bachelor Days Are Over
Character: Mathilda
Released: June 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
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Title: The Songs the Games
Character: Clara
Released: August 3, 2010
Type: TV
Rinat, along with close friend Guy and Clara, a renovator and junk collector, will find themselves in different situations and amusing engagements in issues such as dreams, exaggerations and even faith and peace. Among others they will travel in a time machine to the days of "old Israel".
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Ultimatum
Title: Ultimatum
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
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Title: Our Playground
Character: Clara
Released: September 1, 2009
Type: TV
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Adam Resurrected
Title: Adam Resurrected
Character: Rachel Shwester
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
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The Seven Days
Title: The Seven Days
Character: Ita
Released: May 5, 2008
Type: Movie
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
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Title: שולץ
Released: March 2, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: La La Land
Character: Rosie
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: TV
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Free Zone
Title: Free Zone
Character: Hanna Ben Moshe
Released: April 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.
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Title: Our song
Character: Naomi Shachar
Released: March 21, 2004
Type: TV
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Alila
Title: Alila
Character: Mali
Released: June 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.
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Kuni Leml in Cairo
Title: Kuni Leml in Cairo
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Rabbi Kuni Lemle has just finished a Torah and is going to donate it to a congregation in Cairo. In exchange for the Torah scroll, the congregation in Cairo will give Kuni's congregation some antique coins valued at a million dollars. Kuni's twin brother's bosses hear about it and they make Muni dress up as Kuni so that he will get the coins instead. Muni gives the coins back to Kuni and the movie ends with a bunch of dancing Hassidim.
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עם ישראל חי
Title: עם ישראל חי
Character: גילה דינור
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Belfer
Title: Belfer
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Solomon Belfer, child who arrives to kibbutz after his father fled the country. He dreames of the moment when his father sent him a plane ticket, and he will leave the kibbutz. Meanwhile, he lies in his room and refuses to join the life of the community ...
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Millionaire in Trouble
Title: Millionaire in Trouble
Character: The Maid
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
A comedy about a millionaire who pretends to be not a millionaire...
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Save the Lifeguard
Title: Save the Lifeguard
Released: June 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Comedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends.
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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
Title: Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
Character: Hermona
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Sergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
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סינדרלה: מחזמר 2012
Title: סינדרלה: מחזמר 2012
Character: אמא חורגת
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: רוקדים עם כוכבים
Character: Self - Judge
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The Israeli version of the popular British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the contest. Each week the couple that gains the least votes from the show's judges and spectators is eliminated. Viewers vote for their favorites, in order to save them from elimination, via phone, SMS and online. Over 350,000 votes were cast on the show's 3rd season finale.