Hana Laszlo

In 2019, she received an honorary PhD from Bar-Ilan University for contributions to the stage arts. She never had formal education but speaks and performs in six different languages - Hebrew, English, Yiddish, French, German and Dutch.

Laszlo performed the voice of Nai Nai in the Hebrew-Language dub of the 2019 animated film Abominable.

In 2010, she served as a judge with Claude Dadia and Eli Mizrachi on Rokdim Im Kokhavim, the Israeli version of Dancing with the Stars.

In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Free Zone. Laszlo stars in the film alongside Natalie Portman. The Palme d'Or marked the pick of Laszlo's comeback.

From 2002-2004, Laszlo was one of two presenters (the other being Pnina Dvorin) of the Israeli version of the British television game show The Weakest Link.

Laszlo rose to enormous success in the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of character-driven comedy routines. She created and portrayed some of the most iconic characters of that era - including such characters as 'Safta Zapta' and 'Clara the Cleaning Lady.'

Laszlo wrote, produced, financed and starred in more than a dozen one-woman shows since the 1980s. She spends a third of the year on stage with them.

She met her first husband, Israeli media proprietor Aviv Giladi, on the set of Uri Zohar's Save The Lifeguard. The two proceeded to work together on various stage productions and eventually got married in 1979.

In 1972–1973, she served in the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command musical troupe. Around those years she was in a relationship with Israeli pop-star Svika Pick.

Hana Laszlo (Hebrew: חנה לסלאו ‎; born 14 June 1953) is an Israeli actress and comedian. In 2005, she won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Free Zone. She has also received four Ophir Award nominations.