Acting credits
49
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Sasson Gabai
Acting
Career Snapshot
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2.0
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Movies: 38Series: 11
TMDB ID: 16604
IMDb ID: nm0299924
Known for: Acting
Born: November 24, 1947
Age: 78
Place of birth: Baghdad, Iraq
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2026
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 6.39
Wikidata: Q1359402
Also known as
ששון גבאי • Sasson Gabai
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit". He is leading and prolific actors in Israel.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sasson Gabai.
The Band's visit: The musical
as Tewfiq
2026 Movie
Antigone
as קריאון
2024 Movie
8.5
Bliss
2024 Movie
7.0
My Daughter My Love
as Shimon
2023 Movie
6.7
Karaoke
as Meir
2022 Movie
5.5
Where Life Begins
2022 Movie
6.4
Black Notebooks
2021 Movie
6.5
Oslo
as Shimon Peres
2021 Movie
Abu Eli
2019 Movie
6.5
A Brother’s Love
as Hichem
2019 Movie
6.6
The Other Story
as Shlomo Abadi
2018 Movie
6.6
The Angel
as Anwar Sadat
2018 Movie
Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »
as Self
2016 Movie
6.4
The Kind Words
2015 Movie
7.5
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
as Simeon Amsalem
2014 Movie
5.0
Kidon
2013 Movie
6.0
Hunting Elephants
as Eliyahu
2013 Movie
6.9
When Pigs Have Wings
as Jafaar
2011 Movie
5.9
Restoration
as Yaakov Fidelman
2011 Movie
5.7
Hello Goodbye
as Le Chef de la Police
2008 Movie
7.0
The Band's Visit
as Tewfiq Zakaria
2007 Movie
6.0
Aviva, My Love
as Oded Zar
2006 Movie
6.5
Year Zero
as Guide-Dogs Trainer
2004 Movie
6.6
Made in Israel
as Perach
2001 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sasson Gabai.
7.5
Kugel
as Nukhem Shtisel • 8 eps
2024 Series
7.3
WeCrashed
as Doron Neumann • 1 eps
2022 Series
9.0
Stockholm
as Amos Barazani • 12 eps
2018 Series
7.4
Betulot
as Uzi Reguan • 28 eps
2014 Series
8.0
Shtisel
as Nukhem Shtisel • 13 eps
2013 Series
7.0
Polishuk
as Rubi Polishuk • 39 eps
2009 Series
6.9
House of Saddam
as Ahmed Al Bakr • 1 eps
2008 Series
The Kastner Trial
as Israel (Rudolf/Reszo) Kastner • 3 eps
1994 Series
סיפורים לשעת לילה מאוחרת
as מתבודד תמהוני • 1 eps
1987 Series
Eretz Moledet
17 eps
1981 Series
9.0
Zehu Ze
281 eps
1978 Series