Rotem Sela


Rotem Sela[] is an Israeli model, actress and television presenter best-known for playing Noa Hollander on the hit TV-show Beauty and the Baker.

Early life

She was conscripted in the Israeli Defence Forces, serving as a clerk in the Navy at the Kirya base. Afterwards she graduated with a degree in Law and Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a private research university.

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 I want to succeed here, to work here, to do Israeli work…it was important to me to stay here.”
As a model she currently fronts the Castro campaigns alongside Aviv Alush.
In 2013 she was cast as the female lead in Beauty and the Baker alongside Alush after Bar Refaeli exited the role. Sela plays Noa Hollander a privileged Ashkenazi model and heiress that falls in love with a working-class Yemenite baker Amos Dahari. The series was positively reviewed by Haaretz newspaper. 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.

Personal life

In 2010 she married Ariel Rotter with whom she has three children.
In March 2019, Sela criticized culture minister Miri Regev's reaction to Arab political parties in Israel. Sela wrote that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then responded directly to Sela's post and brought attention to the. Sela was publicly supported by several Israeli figures, including Hollywood actress Gal Gadot, newscaster Lucy Aharish and model Shlomit Malka.
Sela has supported LGBT rights, telling Ynet in 2015 that “I would give Nora Grinberg a torch, she’s among the first 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 that “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

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003ShemeshModelEpisode: Basad Ha-Sheni
2007Ha-AlufaEpisode 2.99
2010Bobby ve AniNurse Svetlana
2010Lost in AfricaTzlil Marom MeitarMini-series
2011Eretz NehederetNot Really Rotem SelaEpisode: 8.7
2009-2011Naor's FriendsRotem SelaEpisodes: Passive Aggressive, Missoni Shirt
2017The DogsShort film
2013–presentBeauty and the BakerNoa HollanderSeries regular
2018The PsychologistLiat ShtrosmanSeries regular
2018AutonomiesBlumiMiniseries