Dina Doron
Dina Peskin, known professionally as Dina Doron and Dina Doronne, is an Israeli film and stage actress.
Biography
Doron was born in Afula, Mandatory Palestine on 15 March 1940 to Zivia and Emanuel Peskin. Doron is Jewish. She has often portrayed Jewish women throughout her career. She moved to New York to study theatre and dance in the 1950s. She trained in modern dance at the Martha Graham School. Her American theatre debut was on Broadway as Anne Frank in the play The Diary of Anne Frank. She went on to have a career as a film actress, starring in Israeli and French films including The Faithful City, The Glass Cage, Late Marriage, and A Tale of Love and Darkness. Doron returned to the stage in 2016 to portray Billy Elliot's grandmother in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Cinema City Gelilot Complex in Israel. In 2017 she voiced the role, both speaking and singing, of Mamá Coco in Pixar's Hebrew version of the digitally animated film Coco. As part of the cast of Coco, she sang on the Hebrew version of the track Remember Me, which won Best Original Song at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018. She was cast in the 2020 Netflix original miniseries Unorthodox, which premiered on 26 March 2020.
Personal life
Doron married Serbian film producer Ilan Eldad in 1964. They have two children, Dan Eldad and Ruth Eldad-Seidne. Her son is an Israeli government official and lawyer.
Stage
The Diary of Anne Frank as Anne Frank Billy Elliot the Musical as Billy Elliot's grandmother
Filmography
The Faithful City as AnnaThe Glass Cage as SoniaSinaia as Bedouin WomanMoses the Lawgiver as JochebedJesus as Saint ElizabethThe New Media Bible: Book of Genesis as SarahA Thousand Little Kisses as RoutaHa-Shiga'on Hagadol as Nurse HavaLate Marriage as LubaThe Galilee Eskimos as FannyYou Don't Mess with the Zohan as Mrs. Dvir, Zohan's motherA Tale of Love and Darkness as Grandma KlausnerHoly Lands as Mrs. LapierreCoco as Mamá Coco Unorthodox as Bubbe, Esty's grandmother