Jonathan Sagall

Jonathan Sagall is an actor, writer, director, and producer who grew up in Toronto, Canada, and started performing in films after his family relocated to Israel when he was a teenager. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. His roles include Bobby in the Lemon Popsicle series, Robbie in Amos Guttman's Drifting, Poldek Pfefferberg in Schindler's List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg, and Asaf Refaeli in the television drama Hamakom. On Drifting (1983), the first feature he co-produced, he also took the lead, and the film played at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1984, collecting Israeli National Awards such as Best Film. He wrote, directed, and produced Urban Feel (1999), which competed at Berlin, and Lipstikka (2011), which screened at Berlin, Jerusalem, and Toronto and won two Best Actress awards at Jerusalem. He also made short films, wrote and directed stage plays, and wrote for an Israeli-Palestinian Sesame Street production.