Orly Ben-Garti
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Orly Ben-Garti (Born: March 29, 1977) is an Israeli Actress andSinger.
Ben-Garti's career started at the age of 15 when she got her first role in Ze'ev Revah's movie "Tipat mazal" (AKA "A Bit of Luck") in the year 1992 with Arye Moskuna and Zehava Ben. In 1994 she played the lead in Shmuel Hasfari's film "Sh'Chur" (AKA "Shchur") which attained second place in the Berlin International Film Festival and won 6 Israeli Oscar awards from the Israeli Film Academy with Gila Almagor and Ronit Elkabets. Ben-Garti was nominated for the Israeli Oscar for her acting in "Sh'Chur" and won "Best newcomer of the year" from the Israeli Film Academy. In 1995 she played in the film "Sahkanim" (AKA "Auditions") with Shmuel Segal, Aki Avni and Rami Hoyberger. In 1997 Ben-Garti appeared in Doron Tsabari's film "Ha bahur shel Shuli" (AKA "Shuli's fiance") that won the Israeli Oscar in the "Best short film" category, with Arye Elias and Uri Gavrieli. That same year she also acted a role in the Israeli T.V series "Florentene" (AKA "Florentine") with Sami Hori and Ayelet Zurer Directed by Eytan Fox (first season) and Ori Sivan (second season).
In 1999 Ben-Garti had the lead role in the film "Zur Hadasim" with Albert Iluz and Dafna Rechter, she was nominated for the Israeli Oscar for her acting in this film and the film won a Volgin award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the first place at the U.K fantasy Film Festival.
In 2000 she played in Eyal Halfon's film "You must make a movie out of this" as Monalisa Azulay` the film was based on true stories. Later that year she had the lead role in Shmulik Kalderon's film "The Upper Level".
In 2002 she released four singles for broadcast on the radio: "Matrid" (Bothering), "Doa ba'avir" (Floating in the air), "Nesiha" (Princess) and "Beni Le beni" (Between me and myself).
