Mili Avital (Hebrew: מילי אביטל) (born 30 March 1972) is an Israeli actress.
Avital was born in Jerusalem and raised in Tel Aviv and Ra'anana. She attended the Telma Yellin High School of Arts in Giva’atayim. Avital built a successful stage and film career in Israel, winning the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 and nominated for Best Actress in 1994. In 1994 she moved to New York. She has dated actor David Schwimmer. As of 2006, she and her husband, screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Life of David Gale), live in New York City with their son, Benjamin Hillel Randolph, who was born October 28, 2007.
As one of the most highly regarded actresses in her native Israel, Mili Avital has created international success with her diverse starring roles in film, television and theater. Beginning her Career at the age of 17, in the Cameri Theater in Tel-Aviv, she went on to win the 1992 Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Arriving in New York in 1994, she was immediately cast as the female lead in Stargate, for which she received a Sci-fi Universe award. She then appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Dead Man, starred in Kissing a Fool with Jason Lee and David Schwimmer, as well as Polish Wedding, The Human Stain, When Do We Eat?, and many more.
Her television work includes portraying Scheherazade in the Emmy nominated ABC miniseries Arabian Nights, Jon Avnet’s Uprising and After the Storm. Her recent work in Israel are the hit films Ahava Columbianit (Columbian Love) and Noodle, for which she received the 2007 Israel’s Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress, an Israeli Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and Israel’s Person of the Year nomination. She starred as Cordelia in the play "King Lear" at the Electric Lodge (Venice, California) in 2006. Her directorial debut, the short documentary "I Think Myself I am All the Time Younger", which she also produced, received its world premiere at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
