Moni Ovadia

Biography

Salomone Moni Ovadia is a Bulgarian-born Italian Jewish actor and musician, born on April 16, 1946, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family that narrowly escaped the Holocaust due to the actions of Metropolitan Cyril. The family later settled in Italy in 1949, where Ovadia attended Milan's Jewish school and developed his Yiddish singing skills. As an actor, he is known for roles referencing Eastern European Jewish culture.