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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1989-03-11

Place of Birth

Jerusalem, Israel

Daniella Kertesz

Biography

Daniella Kertesz (דניאלה קרטס‎ ) is an Israeli actress who achieved international prominence for her breakout Hollywood film role alongside Brad Pitt in the global blockbuster zombie thriller World War Z (2013). Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, into a Jewish family, Kertesz began her acting career in Israeli television and theatre. She built a solid foundation starring in prominent local television series, including the popular teen drama AD 101, the thriller series Masks, and the acclaimed Israeli drama Ha-Metim (The Dead) and Custody. Her major turning point came when she was cast as Segen, a fierce and loyal Israeli soldier and military escort who assists Brad Pitt's character during a global pandemic, most notably in the tense, memorable airplane sequence. Her performance earned widespread praise for her strong screen presence and physical commitment. Following her international film debut, Kertesz has continued to work across stage and television, balancing projects in both Israel and international markets while cementing her reputation for intense, grounded dramatic performances.

Known for

World War Z

World War Z

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Shtisel

Shtisel

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.

Shtisel

Shtisel

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.

Loving Anna

Loving Anna

Menashe never thought that he would love again. For the past decade, he has been the widowed father to four bright and sensitive children. When his kids surprise him with a computer for his birthday, he has no idea that with a few simple clicks he will be introduced to the woman who makes him feel young again… Simply, Anna. Anna is half Menashe’s age, a beautiful and haunting Ukrainian woman searching for love, and for a new life. When Menashe brings Anna home, his simple life becomes complicated by jealousy, betrayal, and even a romantic rivalry for Anna with his two sons. Her beauty and mysteriousness shakes his family as well as the all town.

Autonomies

Autonomies

In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular.

AfterDeath

AfterDeath

Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...

10 Kilos

10 Kilos

Sharon Yitzhaki traveled to Bolivia with a guy she barely knew. She was indicted in an attempt to smuggle 10 kilos of cocaine out of the country and sentenced to serve her time at one of the cruelest women’s prisons in the world. She quickly became a media sensation in Bolivia, had an affair with the head of La Paz’s drug cartel, established a family in prison that included a 7-year-old orphan and an amazing transgender, ran the cartel business in prison to protect her family, became addicted to cocaine and quit to save the loved ones in her life, used a loophole in the law to smuggle herself and her family to Brazil, from there back to Tel Aviv and then wrote a detailed, bestselling autobiography.

Incitement

Incitement

A depiction of the lead-up to the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin through the worldview of his assassin, Yigal Amir.

Operation Sunflower

Operation Sunflower

Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.

Neshoma

Neshoma

Neshoma is the Yiddish-Hebrew word for soul or spirit. In Sandra Beerends’ new film, this refers to the soul of pre-war Jewish Amsterdam.

AI've Never Met Someone Like You

AI've Never Met Someone Like You

Hava and Jeanne, two actresses on a film set, are observed by an AI as they explore the initial stages of intimacy with each other. When Hava sees unexpected desires on the AI's monitor, she delves deeper. Tempting Jeanne to see themselves through the AI's eyes, she encounters an unsettling echo of their interactions, blurring the lines between their reality and the AI's interpretation.

Outlaws

Outlaws

In a robbery gone wrong, two women are forced to reckon with their values, livelihood, and relationship.