Biografia

Graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2003 with a Artium Baccalaureus degree in Psychology.

She often broke down and cried offstage while part of the Broadway adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 1997, where she portrayed Anne Frank, because of her personal connections to the events. Her grandparents lost most of their family members in the Holocaust including her paternal great grandparents who were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Had to miss the premiere of Star Wars: Episódio I - A Ameaça Fantasma (1999) so she could study for her high school final exams.

Can speak two languages, Hebrew and English (her native languages), fluently. Also knows some conversational French.

She was discovered in a pizza parlor and was originally turned down for the role of Mathilda in O Profissional (1994) because she was too young.

On Lolita (1997): I don't think there needs to be a movie out where a child has sex with an adult.

On Lolita (1997): I think there's enough exploitation out there that it's not necessary to do more.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarassing family, friends, and even strangers.

On acting: I started to do this at age 11. At age 20, I might say, this is enough.

On violence in the media: We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction: Tempo de Violência (1994), it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.