Rotem Sela

Rotem Sela (; born 16 August 1983) is an Israeli model, television presenter, and actress who starred as Noa Hollander on the Israeli television series Beauty and the Baker (2013–2021) and co-hosted the singing reality show Rising Star since 2014. In 2022, she was described by Haaretz as "the most successful actress in Israel right now."Anderman, Nirit (11 August 2022). Gal Gadot Who? This Israeli Actress Is Suddenly Everywhere Haaretz. Retrieved on 18 April 2025

In 2023, she began starring in A Body That Works, Israel's highest-rated drama of that year. She won Best Actress at Series Mania for her role and was also a Best Actress nominee for the Awards of the Israeli Television Academy. In 2026, she was awarded the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy award at the Awards of the Israeli Television Academy for her role in the second season of Bloody Murray (2022–present).Brown, Hannah (4 May 2026). Israeli TV Academy Awards present their 2025 prizes, and honor the late Alon Aboutboul The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on 19 September 2026.

Early life Rotem Sela () was born and raised in Kiryat Haim, Haifa, Israel to Liora (Shaulski), a teacher and Avraham, a CEO of a medical equipment company. She is of Polish-Jewish descent and Turkish-Jewish descent. Sela's family moved to Caesarea, Israel, when Sela was 17.

She was enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving for three years as a clerk for the Israeli Navy.

She graduated in 2011 with a degree in law and business administration from the IDC Herzliya college in Herzliya, Israel, and subsequently passed the bar.Meet Rotem Sela, The Israeli Actress Who Provoked Netanyahu By Calling Arabs ‘Human Beings’ The Forward. 11 March 2019

Career Sela has said that she prioritises having a career in Israel instead of pursuing opportunities elsewhere; “Tel Aviv cannot be replaced by any city in the world. It’s always surprising to people, but it’s really not my dream to succeed in America, I want to succeed here, to work here, to do Israeli work … it was important to me to stay here.”

Sela began her modeling career at the age of 15.5, when she was signed up by modelling agent Roberto Ben Shoshan.

In 2013 she was cast as the female lead in Beauty and the Baker alongside Alush after Bar Refaeli exited the role.Can Bar Refaeli quash the feud with her Eurovision co-host? The Jerusalem Post. 5 February 2019 Sela plays Noa Hollander, a privileged Ashkenazi model and heiress that falls in love with a working-class Yemenite baker Amos Dahari (Alush). The series was positively reviewed by the newspaper Haaretz.'Big Brother' Co-host Pens Israeli Romantic Comedy - and Scores Haaretz. 2 January 2013 In 2017 Amazon acquired global rights of the first two seasons of the show to stream them worldwide on Amazon Prime Video.

In 2018 she was cast as a series regular in The Psychologist, an Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation show that follows a similar format to the Lisa Kudrow series Web Therapy. In the same year Sela appeared alongside Assi Cohen as a Haredi housewife in Autonomies. Autonomies is a dystopian drama about an Israel divided into two entities; the Haredi Autonomy in Jerusalem and a secular State of Israel in Tel Aviv.The TV Series That Offers a Possible Solution to Israel’s Problems Haaretz. 25 October 2018New Israeli TV Drama Raises Troubling Question: What if Haredi Jews Seceded? Tablet. 21 March 2018

In 2023 she starred alongside Yehuda Levi in A Body That Works, a surrogacy drama series on Keshet 12. The series was a major success in Israel, and was the highest rated drama of 2023 in the country. Sela won the Best Actress award for an international series at Series Mania in France.Series Mania Festival 2023 Winners AnnouncedDeadline. 24 March 2023 It was released internationally by Netflix.Surrogacy Drama ‘A Body That Works’ Renewed for Second Season (EXCLUSIVE) Variety. 26 February 2024Netflix Picks Up Intimate Israeli Surrogacy Drama ‘A Body That Works’ Deadline. 15 February 2024

In January 2025, Sela starred alongside Lior Raz and Zohar Strauss in the Israeli drama, Soda by Erez Tadmor. It is based on the story of Tadmor's grandfather, a Jewish partisan during the Second World War, and his subsequent post-war life in Israel. The film centers on an accusation that Sela's character on the Kibbutz was a Kapo during the Holocaust.Film director Tadmor tells story behind his movie ‘Children of Nobody’ The Jerusalem Post. 23 December 2023Brown, Hannah (18 January 2025). Post-trauma, then and now: Erez Tadmor's 'Soda' explores Holocaust survivors' stories The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on 21 January 2025

In the same year she starred in Red Alert, a drama series based upon real life events from the October 7 attacks. The limited series was produced by American producer Lawrence Bender and was scheduled to be released internationally by Paramount+ and on Channel 12 in Israel on October 7, 2025.Hibberd, James (25 September 2025). Paramount’s ‘Red Alert’ Trailer Depicts Oct. 7 Massacre in Israel for First Time The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on 27 September 2025(26 November 2024). ‘Pulp Fiction’ Producer Lawrence Bender Boards Real Life-Inspired Israeli Action Drama Series ‘Red Alert’ (EXCLUSIVE) Variety. Retrieved on 27 September 2025(22 September 2025) Paramount+ to Stream ‘Red Alert’ Series About Hamas Attack on Israel; David Ellison Says Show Highlights ‘Commitment to Storytelling Through Artistic Excellence and Accuracy’ Variety. Retrieved on 27 September 2025

Additional work As a model she currently fronts the Castro campaigns alongside Aviv Alush.Gal Gadot Who? This Israeli Actress Is Suddenly Everywhere Haaretz. 11 August 2022רותם סלע ואביב אלוש בקולקציית החג של קסטרו YouTube. 2018מאיפה ה- COAT? מקסטרו! YouTube. 2019

In 2025, she was briefly featured on Idan Amedi's sixth studio album, Superman, with a spoken part.Isaacson, Gila (06 January 2025). Idan Amedi is back! – Beloved Popstar Drops Raw Album About Gaza JFeed. Retrieved on 21 January 2025

Personal life In 2010. she married Israeli businessman Ariel Rotter, with whom she has three children.

Sela became a vegetarian in 2007, and then began to take on veganism as well. In an interview with the Pnai Plus newspaper in November 2015, she defined herself as "90% vegan". In 2014, she participated in a broadcast by the Vegan Friendly organization, which opposes the harm to cows in the dairy industry and calls for avoiding the consumption of dairy products.

In March 2019, Sela criticized Israel's Ministry of Culture and Sport, Mrs. Miri Regev, due to Regev's reaction to the Arab political parties at the Knesset of Israel. Sela subsequently shared her political views online, where she also criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Netanyahu responded directly back to Sela's post, and brought to her attention the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.'Israel Is the Nation-state of Jews Alone': Netanyahu Responds to TV Star Who Said Arabs Are Equal Citizens Haaretz. 11 March 2019 Sela was publicly supported at the time by several local figures, including her fellow Israeli actress Gal Gadot,Wonder Woman vs. Bibi: Gal Gadot Takes Stand in Row Over Jewish-Arab Equality Haaretz. 11 March 2019 model Shlomit Malka,The Israeli Beauty Queens Who Don't Want to Be Pretty and Shut Up Haaretz. 12 March 2019 and Arab-Israeli newscaster Lucy Aharish.Lucy Aharish, Arab-Israeli news anchor speaks out in Rotem Sela firestorm The Jerusalem Post. 12 March 2019

Sela has supported LGBT rights, telling ynet in 2015 that "I would give Nora Grinberg a torch, she's among the first [openly] transgender people in Israel, and it's very important that gays, lesbians and transgenders get a stage." And when asked whether the #MeToo movement had become too extreme, she replied, "The situation before the #MeToo movement was extreme, this world in which men allowed themselves to talk and behave to women in an uninhibited way. The campaign is very important, and even if at the moment it feels to some people too extreme, it is okay and eventually the middle will be found."

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes 2003 Shemesh Model Episode: Basad Ha-Sheni 2007 Ha-Alufa Episode 2.992010 Bobby ve Ani Nurse Svetlana Lost in Africa Tzlil Marom Meitar Mini-series 2011 Eretz Nehederet Not Really Rotem Sela Episode: 8.7 2009–2011 Naor's Friends Rotem Sela Episodes: Passive Aggressive, Missoni Shirt 2013–2021 Beauty and the Baker Noa Hollander Series regular 2014–present Rising Star Co-host With Assi Azar 2017 The Dogs Short film2018 The Psychologist Liat Shtrosman Series regular Autonomies Blumi Miniseries 2020–2021 The Chef Osnat 9 episodes 2021 Jerusalem Shira Mini series 2022 Ole LaRosh Film 2022–present Bloody Murray Dana Series regular 2023–present A Body That Works Elie Avrahami Series regular 2024–present Metukim Shunit Devash Series regular2025 Soda Ewa Film Red Alert Bat Sheva Limited series

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