Israeli Actress Shira Haas Streams Into the U.S. With ‘Unorthodox’

Shira Haas wants to thank Mark Zuckerberg. The Israeli actress, now 24, was 16 and a student at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Giv’ atayim, Israel, when she received a message on the social media platform that kicked off her film career. “I got this message on my Facebook from a very well-known casting director — and I didn’t have an agent; I didn’t have anything back then — she wrote me like, ‘Hi, I’m sorry for approaching you here, anyway — we’re looking for an actress for a movie, can you come and audition? I see you’re a theater major, I’m not a weirdo, this is my work.’ This is how it happened.” Haas raises her eyebrows from inside her room at the Gramercy Park Hotel; even she realizes that it sounds awfully fortuitous. That audition was for the lead role in the 2014 Israeli film “Princess,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and led to an agent and more projects for the young actress, including her first English-language film in 2017, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” with Jessica Chastain. “And things just started to roll, in a way,” adds Haas. “I worked really hard and I got a lot

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