14 Facts About Rotem Sela

Rotem Sela is an Israeli model, television presenter, and actress; best known for starring as Noa Hollander on the Israeli television series Beauty and the Baker and as co-host of the singing reality show Rising Star since 2014.

Rotem Sela won Best Actress at Series Mania for her role and was a Best Actress nominee for the Awards of the Israeli Television Academy.

Rotem Sela was born and raised in Kiryat Haim, Haifa, Israel to Liora and Avraham Sela.

Rotem Sela is the youngest daughter and her elder sister is Tal Sela.

Rotem Sela was enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces, serving for three years as a clerk for the Israeli Navy.

Rotem Sela graduated in 2011 with a degree in law and business administration from the IDC Herzliya college in Herzliya, Israel, and subsequently passed the bar.

Rotem Sela plays Noa Hollander a privileged Ashkenazi model and heiress that falls in love with a working-class Yemenite baker Amos Dahari.

Rotem Sela won the Best Actress award for an international series at Series Mania in France.

In January 2025, Rotem Sela starred alongside Lior Raz and Zohar Strauss in the Israeli drama, Soda by Erez Tadmor.

The film centers on an accusation that Rotem Sela's character on the Kibbutz was a Kapo during the Holocaust.

Rotem Sela became a vegetarian in 2007 and then began to approach veganism as well.

In March 2019, Rotem Sela criticized Israel's Ministry of Culture and Sport, Mrs Miri Regev, due to the latter's reaction to the Arab political parties at the Knesset of Israel.

Rotem Sela subsequently shared her political views online and where she condemns Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions, and then Netanyahu responded directly back to Rotem Sela's post and brought to her attention the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.

Rotem Sela was publicly supported at the time by several local figures, including her fellow Israeli actress Gal Gadot, model Shlomit Malka, and Arab-Israeli newscaster Lucy Aharish.