Dina Peskin, known professionally as Dina Doron and Dina Doronne,
(×"×™× ×" ×"ורון in Hebrew; born 15 March 1940) is an Israeli film
and stage actress.Doron was born in Afula, Israel 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.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.
(×"×™× ×" ×"ורון in Hebrew; born 15 March 1940) is an Israeli film
and stage actress.Doron was born in Afula, Israel 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.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.
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