Biography
Who is Niv Sultan?
Early life and training
Niv Sultan was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to a family of Moroccan Jews. After completing her compulsory military service, she pursued formal acting education.
She attended the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio in Tel Aviv, where she completed a three-year training program. As a student, she performed in the institution production of A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, taking on a lead role as Catherine.
Acting career highlights
Niv began her professional acting career in 2013 and soon secured roles in various local television projects. Between 2015 and 2017, she appeared in the family sitcom La Famiglia on Channel 10. She also took on a regular role in the youth drama series Wild Horses on the Zoom channel in 2016, and acted in the teen comedy Almost Famous in 2017.
Her breakout role came when she was cast as Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad hacker agent operating in Iran, in the espionage thriller series Tehran. The series premiered on Apple TV and Kan 11, and her performance earned her the Israeli Television Academy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2020.
Recent television and film roles
Following her success in Tehran, Niv continued to take on diverse television and film roles. In 2020, she starred in the short film Long Distance, directed by Asaph Polonsky. She later appeared in the suspense series Boged on Hot in 2022.
In subsequent years, she was cast in the medical thriller series Heart of another Murderer to play transplant surgeon Dr. Dasi Nakash. She also worked on other projects including the comedy film Matchmaking 2 and the crime thriller series Murder at the Dead Sea.
Business and personal life
Alongside her acting career, Niv is an entrepreneur who co-owns the jewelry brand Sultana alongside her sisters Bar and May. She has also served as a brand ambassador for Samsung in Israel starting in 2021.
In March 2022, she married Israeli actor Maor Schweitzer. The two first met while working together on the set of the show She Has It in 2018, where they portrayed an engaged couple.
Birthday and age
Niv Sultan was born on September 16, 1992, which makes Niv 34 years old today. That birthday falls under the Virgo sign. Niv shares the date with 55 other famous people.
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