Neta Riskin

Neta Riskin is an Israeli actress. She is known for her work on Shtisel (2013), The Gordin Cell (2012), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), and Shelter (2017). Though she didn’t decide on a career in acting until later in life, Riskin has become an icon of Israeli acting. She starred in the psychological TV thriller “The Gordin Cell” and the movie “Shelter,” in which she plays a Mossad agent. As a “sideline” she is an accent coach, her most famous client being Natalie Portman, whom she taught to perfect her Hebrew for her role as Amos Oz’s troubled mother in “A Tale of Love and Darkness.”