吉拉·戈兰
Gila Golan
演员
Gila Golan's career started as an Israeli fashion model, which led to
appearances as a film actress. She was apparently born in Krakow,
Poland, for she was discovered there in a train station during the
German occupation in 1940. She was adopted by a Roman Catholic couple
and later sent to a boarding school in France before emigrating to
Israel after World War II where she changed her name from Zusia
Sobetzcki to Miriam Goldberg. She became interested in fashion and her
being spotted by an American photographer led to appearing in the
Israeli magazine La'isha. It was a natural step for her to extend her
fashion activities into the 1960 competition which led to her being
crowned "Na'arat Israel" - Israel's Maiden of Beauty (IMB) - or using
international usage, "Miss Israel." For this competition she changed
her name to Gila Golan. Such a change of names to one more typically
Israeli was common at the time, but she may have done this to prevent
any embarrassment to her religiously conservative family and friends.
She went on to place second in the Miss World competition held later
that year in London where she met the Columbia Pictures executive
William Cohan and his wife. This led to her entrance into films with a
debut in Ship of Fools (1965).
Cohen and his wife came to view her as sort of a foster daughter. She
married three times and has several children and reportedly she now
runs an investment business.
