Ayelet Zurer Story

Introduction

Ayelet Zurer is an Israeli actress who was born and raised in Tel Aviv. After finishing her required military service, (of which she says, "I didn't do anything. I didn't even carry a gun.") she moved to New York, where she developed her acting skills at the New Actors Workshop School.

Career

Ayelet moved back to Israel in 1991 and began a long run on several Israeli television shows.

Zurer's first international role was in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005), where she played Eric Bana's wife. She later played the role of an exotic terrorist, Veronica, in the American thriller Vantage Point (2007), appearing alongside Dennis Quaid, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver. Her next international role was in Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), where she played Gina Grey, a nurse who falls in love with the title character, Adam Stein, a disturbed Holocaust survivor played by Jeff Goldblum.

In 2007, Zurer starred in Fugitive Pieces, the story of a boy who survives the Holocaust in Greece and becomes a troubled young adult who falls in love with her character.

In April 2008, Ayelet was cast as the female lead, Vittoria Vetra, in the The Da Vinci Code prequel, Angels & Demons (2009).