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Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
June 16, 2023, 10:46 pm
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir biopic gets US release date
Movie by Oscar-winning Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv will begin playing in theaters on August 24
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Helen Mirren in 'Golda,' opening the Jerusalem Film Festival, July 13-23, 2023 (Courtesy United King Films)
June 7, 2023, 6:55 am
Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren to open 40th Jerusalem Film Festival
French film and Cannes winner ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ to close annual festival on August 23
By Jessica Steinberg
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 23, 2023, 10:49 am
Golda Meir biopic skirts politics as current government faces growing scrutiny
Star Helen Mirren says legendary former PM ‘would have been utterly horrified’ at legal overhaul, calls it ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli director Guy Nattiv and English actor Helen Mirren (R) attend a photocall for the film "Golda," at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’
At Berlin film festival premiere, Guy Nattiv says he was ‘surprised’ by uproar over decision to pick non-Jewish actress for star role
By Deborah Cole
British actress Helen Mirren arrives on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of the film 'Golda,' at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ star Helen Mirren says ex-PM would be ‘horrified’ by Israeli politics today
At Berlin film festival for biopic’s premiere, British actress says government’s efforts to upend Israel’s judicial system mark ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Deborah Cole
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 18, 2023, 9:04 am
‘Helen became her on a spiritual and cellular level’; 1st clip released from ‘Golda’
Mirren ‘adds a brilliant layer of soul, wisdom, humor and courage to the character of Golda,’ says director Guy Nattiv amid controversy over casting
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A woman cycles past a row of posters of the upcoming Berlinale 73rd International Film Festival in Berlin on February 15, 2023. (David GANNON / AFP)
February 16, 2023, 11:11 am
Berlin film festival opens with spotlight on Iran and Ukraine
Special events to include red-carpet protests in solidarity with Iranians, Ukrainians; Helen Mirren to premiere ‘Golda,’ playing Israeli PM; Spielberg to get life’s work award
By Deborah Cole
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2023, 11:53 pm
Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren to debut at Berlin festival
‘Golda’ to be screened to audience for first time next month, after decision to cast non-Jewish actress in lead role generated controversy
By AFP
British theater and film director, playwright and actor Peter Brook poses during a photo session at the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris, February 27, 2018. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
July 3, 2022, 2:08 pm
Peter Brook, mystical giant who changed theater forever, dies at 97
Author of the influential text ‘The Empty Space,’ London-born son of Jewish scientists reinvented the art of performance by taking it back to basics
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Actress Helen Mirren talks to media during a news conference during the 70th International Film Festival Berlin, Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
February 5, 2022, 5:50 am
Helen Mirren: ‘Utterly legitimate’ to question if a non-Jew should play Golda Meir
After criticism of decision to cast her in upcoming film, actress says she too had reservations about role, also muses: ‘Is this really a path you want to go down?’
By ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2022, 7:24 pm
Golda Meir’s grandson defends casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM
Shaul Rahabi tells Jewish Chronicle his late grandmother would have loved casting, and being Jewish ‘doesn’t matter at all,’ amid renewed ‘Jewface’ debate
By ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 6, 2022, 11:27 am
Casting of Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir sparks ‘Jewface’ spat
Famed British actress Maureen Lipman says Jewishness of character is integral; others say actors should be allowed to act
By ToI Staff
Left, Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' Right, then prime minister Golda Meir at the Israeli Embassy in Rome, January 15, 1973. (Jasper Wolf; AP Photo/Giuseppe Anastasi)
November 17, 2021, 8:01 pm
First look at Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in upcoming biopic
Academy Award winner to portray Israel’s only female PM in feature-length movie ‘Golda’ set during turbulent Yom Kippur War period
By ToI Staff
Actresses Helen Mirren (left) and Mila Kunis (AP)
October 27, 2021, 11:39 am
Helen Mirren, Mila Kunis join letter rejecting boycott of Tel Aviv film fest
Other Hollywood figures, including Neil Patrick Harris, Sharon Osbourne, Stephen Fry and Lance Bass, also voice support for the Tel Aviv International LGBTQ Film Festival
By Amy Spiro
Golda Meir. (Yaakov Saar/GPO)
April 10, 2021, 5:46 am
Before Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir: 7 stars who played Israeli prime ministers
Anthony Hopkins, Ingrid Bergman, Lior Ashkenazi among those to have portrayed PMs in films since the 1970s
By Gabe Friedman
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