Rakefet Abergel

Rakefet Abergel

Nacimiento : , Los Angeles, California, USA

Historia

A native of Los Angeles, Rakefet Abergel is an award-winning American/Israeli actor, writer, director, and producer. She appeared in the movie Superbad with Jonah Hill, and as Adam Sandler's sister in Just Go with It . She can also be seen in the films My Best Friend's Girl opposite Dane Cook, with Halle Berry in The Call, and alongside Eddie Murphy & Kerry Washington in the film, A Thousand Words. Rakefet also regularly guest stars on TV shows including Showtime's Shameless, New Girl, My Name is Earl, Bella and the Bulldogs, and iCarly. Her newest film, Boo, which she wrote, produced, and starred in, is her film directorial debut. Previously she also directed various episodes of a web series called "Girls on Girls". The short screenplay for Boo was a finalist in the Best Short Screenplay category at Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio and won Best Short Script at Vancouver Bad Ass Film Festival in Canada. It also won an Honorable Mention at Women in Horror Film Festival in Atlanta and was an official selection at over 15 festivals worldwide. The first film Rakefet wrote was the award-winning horror/thriller short film called Jax in Love, which she co-produced with executive producer & casting director Jory Weitz (Napoleon Dynamite). The film, directed by Oscar-nominated director Colin Campbell made the festival rounds and garnered Abergel ten Best Actress awards from a variety of film festivals including Nightmares Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest, GenreBlast Film Festival, and Oregon Scream Week. The film also won Best Horror Short at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay, as well as over 30 awards for various aspects of the film. She also teaches Hebrew to sixth and seventh graders in Los Angeles and works as an acting coach and mentor for kids and adults at Kid (F)Actor, a company she founded in 2010. Boo is the second production from Cyclamen Films, Rakefet's production company that produced Jax in Love. She is represented across the board at Bohemia Group in LA and New York.

Perfil

Rakefet Abergel

Películas

Backwoods Bubba
Associate Producer
Bubba Wayne Bundy along with the help of his brother John Edward Bundy are two madman who gets off on kidnapping woman and dressing them up.
Do We Really Have to Say Goodbye
Ryan and Jacob have been together for 4 years. They had planned to get married in the summer of 2020. Then a pandemic hit. And Jacob got sick. To make matters worse, because of the nature of the virus, Ryan was not allowed to visit Jacob in the hospital. Nor was he there when Jacob died. But before his passing, Jacob had recorded a message on his phone for Ryan. Now, Ryan has travelled to their favorite beach to watch the video message and to say goodbye - even though going outside places Ryan in immediate, physical danger.
Half-Cocked
Location Manager
A science experiment gone horribly right.
Half-Cocked
Jax
A science experiment gone horribly right.
Boo
Story
A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.
Boo
Writer
A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.
Boo
Director
A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.
Boo
Devi
A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.
Jax in Love
Casting
Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?
Jax in Love
Executive Producer
Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?
Jax in Love
Writer
Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?
Jax in Love
Jax
Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?
La última llamada
Trainee #1
Una operadora telefónica de la línea del 911 de la policía deberá enfrentarse a sus propios temores para intentar salvar la vida de una joven de un asesino en serie que está secuestrando y matando a chicas.
Sígueme el rollo
Patricia
Danny Maccabee es un cirujano plástico que siempre finge estar casado para así no comprometerse con ninguna mujer. Pero un día conoce a la despampanante Palmer, una joven con la que quiere algo más serio. El problema es que cuando Palmer descubre su anillo de casado, piensa que lo está, así que Danny decide contratar a su ayudante Katherine, una madre soltera con hijos, para que finjan ser su familia. Su intención es demostrarle a Palmer que su amor por ella es tan grande que está a punto de divorciarse de su mujer.
Feliz Navidad, Drake y Josh
Janet
Drake consigue un trabajo como Papá Noel y quiere hacer realidad el sueño de una niña de tener la mejor navidad del mundo. Por su parte, Josh es enviado a la cárcel tras una confusión en una fiesta. Aunque Drake intenta liberar a su hermano, sólo consigue empeorar las cosas. Un juez los libera a cambio de darle a la pequeña niña y a sus hermanos la mejor navidad de todas.
Una novia para dos
Heavily Pierced Kid
Tank (Dane Cook) es un joven especialista en seducir y, sobre todo, en ofender a las mujeres. Y por eso le contratan: los ex novios le pagan para que salga con sus ex chicas y haga que pasen un rato horrible. Después, tras esa cita espantosa, ellas suelen volver encantadas. Todo va bien hasta que el mejor amigo de Tank, Dustin (Jason Biggs), contrata sus servicios para recuperar a su ex, Alexis (Kate Hudson). Pero la presunta horrible cita no lo es tanto y Tank se enamora de Alexis.
Daddy's Big Girl
Millie
Overweight and uninspired Millie attempts to finally reconcile with her gay father, but his half-dressed male companions keep getting in the way.
Supersalidos
Muffin Selby
En una de sus últimas noches como estudiantes del instituto, los amigos e inadaptados Evan y Seth experimentarán una legendaria odisea durante una tarde en la que intentan comprar bebida para una fiesta en la que estarán las chicas de sus sueños. En su peripecia les acompañará el indescriptible McLovin, otro amigo inadaptado que acaba de comprarse un carnet falso: su pasaporte para comprar el alcohol.