Ido Mosseri (Hebrew: עידו מוסרי; born April 17, 1978) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, musician, director, and television presenter.[1]
Biography
Early life
Mosseri was born in Tel Aviv, to a Jewish family, to a father of Sephardi-Mizrahi origin and a mother of Ashkenazi origin. In addition to being a child actor, he was educated at Arison Campus. He later studied at Thelma Yellin High School of Arts. He was drafted into the Israeli army at the age of 18 and after his army service, he continued to study acting at Nissan Nativ's studio in Tel Aviv.
Film and television
Mosseri’s first appearance on television was in the children's program Tofsim Rosh in 1987. He participated in several other Israeli television shows, amongst them were Service Not Included and A Matter of Time. Between 2006 and 2007, he participated in the third and fourth seasons of the Israeli daily comedy musical drama Our Song. He also received guest roles in the television shows The Pyjamas, Polishuk, The Arbitrator and Naor's Friends. In 2017 he dubbed the characters of Aviv Geffen, Eyal Golan, Yair Lapid, Static and Ehud Barak in the puppet series Country of the Dwarves. As of 2020, he began appearing on the Israeli sketch comedy show The Jews are Coming, where he has impersonated various people such as Benjamin Netanyahu.[2]
During the course of his studying he participated in several student movies and also participated in the 2003 film Exile To Heaven, the 2004 film Late Reaction and the 2006 film Offside. Mosseri achieved some international roles as well. In 2008, he was a central cast member playing the role of Oori Shulimson in You Don't Mess with the Zohan starring Adam Sandler.[3] The two worked together once more in the 2011 film Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, in which the latter was a producer, and again in the 2023 film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.[4]
Between 1992 and 1995, Mosseri was a member of the Tel Aviv Youth Band. In 2009, he released a spoken word album which he signed with Hed Arzi Music.[7] He also performed a song on Liran Danino’s debut album in 2012.