Alona Tal was born in October 1983 in Herzliya, Israel, to a Jewish family. Tal, an Israeli-American singer and actor, grew up in Herzliya, Israel. Her father, Ami Tal, is a computer expert of Sephardi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish, Turkish Jewish background, with the original surname “Mizrahi”; her mother, Ayala (née Sabat), is an Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish Jewish lawyer. Her parents were born in Israel. Her parents split when she was nine. She has two sisters and two half-sisters from her father’s later relationship. She attended Thelma Yellin High School in Givatayim, Israel, and majored in theatre. She is Jewish and describes herself as a “spiritual person”. After school, she joined the Israel Defence Forces before beginning her singing career. She served in the military theatre of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
Tal started her career after her military service, 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 Israel film Lihiyot Kochav (To Be A Star).
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 determined to make it in the real world. She took part in the first three seasons and later took part as a guest star which gave her the chance to show her musical talent. Although she was the main character only in the first three seasons, she appeared in the fourth season for several episodes.
Her big break came in 2003 starring in an Israeli film. At the time she also starred in two television series in the country, and also dabbled in music, recording several songs with the Israeli rapper Subliminal. Tal moved in with her sister in New York to take a break from her career. There, she collaborated with Haitian artist Wyclef Jean in the song “Party to Damascus”. She also managed to establish herself on American television, beginning with a recurring role in the series Veronica Mars: She originally auditioned for the lead role, but creator Rob Thomas wrote a new character just for her. Tal later snagged a regular role in the short-lived CBS series.
Tal landed as Ivy in the second season of the television series Truth be Told in November 2020.
Personal Life
On March 23, 2005, Tal married American actor Marcos A. Ferraez. Tal announced on October 23, 2016, at a Supernatural panel that she was expecting her first child. She celebrated her pregnancy with a baby shower on January 29, 2017. She has two daughters, born in March 2017 and September 2022, namely Bailey Ferraez and Charlie Ferraez.
Net Worth / Height
Alona Tal is an Israeli American singer who has a net worth of $600,000 (Six Hundred Thousand Dollars), Her Height is 5′ 4″ (1.63 m).
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