1. Elana Eden is an Israeli actress of film, television, and stage, best known for her film debut as the title role in 20th Century Fox's biblical epic The Story of Ruth.
11 Facts About Elana Eden
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Elana Eden's father, Zvi Cooper, was a Polish-born landscape gardener who had emigrated from Europe and had settled in the Holy Land, in a recently organized farming community in what was then British-occupied Palestine.
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Elana Eden has two older siblings: a brother Moti and a sister Tamar.
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Elana Eden grew up speaking the new modern revived language of Hebrew and being exposed to her parents' native languages of Polish, Russian and Yiddish.
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Elana Eden later learned English at school, and attended high school at a kibbutz in the central western coastal Sharon plain.
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Elana Eden worked as a writer for the prominent Israeli national newspaper Haaretz, published in the then capital city of Tel Aviv.
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Elana Eden decided to become an actress after seeing a performance of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion when she was 15 years old.
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Elana Eden won a scholarship to study acting at Israel's Habima Theatre Drama School in Tel Aviv, and made her stage debut in the play Lysistrata, which toured as she performed over 50 times in various locations in Israel in the late 1950s.
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Elana Eden married Israeli author and playwright Nissim Aloni in 1962, they divorced in 1965.
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Elana Eden later married American composer Fredric "Fred" Myrow on 6 June 1969.
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Elana Eden was a speaker at the "kickoff" dinner for the 1967 United Jewish Appeal campaign and the Modesto Jewish Welfare in Modesto, California.