Alona Tal

Tal was born and raised in Herzliya, Israel. She is Jewish and has described herself as a "spiritual person". Her father Ami Tal is a computer professional of Turkish-Jewish descent, whose original surname was Mizrahi. Her mother Ayala (née Sabat) is a lawyer. Both her parents were born in Israel.\n', '

Tal started her career after leaving the Israel Defense Forces, with a children\'s musical video tape in which she played an evil witch. Following that, she appeared in a commercial for a laundry detergent, and then appeared in the lead role in the Israeli film Lihiyot Kochav (To Be A Star).\n', '

During the filming of the movie Tal was offered two roles in two different Israeli television shows, and she took both. The first was a soap opera named Tzimerim, about the life of a family that runs a hotel; the second one was HaPijamot (The Pyjamas), a sitcom about a struggling band determin…