Sofi Tzadka

Sofi Tsedaka (Hebrew: סופי שרה צדקה; born (1975-10-26)26 October 1975), also known by her post-conversion name Sofi Sarah, is an Israeli actress, singer, television presenter and politician.

Born into a Samaritan family in the city of Holon, Israel, Tsedaka formally converted to Judaism along with her sisters at the age of 18. She has acted and sung on various television shows and children's video cassettes throughout her career and has also released several musical singles on Israeli radio. Tsedaka voiced the character Ella of Frell (played by Anne Hathaway) in the Hebrew-language dub of the 2004 film Ella Enchanted. In 2017, Tsedaka produced a documentary about leaving the Samaritan community and converting to Judaism. She has released a CD titled Barashet, which is the Samaritan-language rendering of the Biblical Hebrew word for the Book of Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bərēšīṯ), containing the first few verses of the Samaritan Pentateuch.