Actress Caroline Langford has passed away at the age of 68
Caroline Langford, a star of Israeli comedies in the 80s, has died of cancer. The actress was known for her roles in Yehuda Barkan's prank films and her marriage to director Assi Dayan.
Actress Caroline Langford, who became famous in Israel for prank films and was the ex-wife of Assi Dayan and mother of Lior Dayan, has passed away at the age of 68. She died on Friday from cancer.
Caroline Langford was born in London in 1958 to Shirley and Barry Langford, who was a television director in the UK and later in Israel. The family immigrated to Israel when Caroline was 14. She began her career as a singer, but later became famous as an actress in the 80s with films such as "Girls", "King for a Day" and "Am Yisrael Chai", and especially thanks to the prank films of Yehuda Barkan and Igal Shilon "Smile, You've Been Had", "See You Around" and "See You at the Beach".
Langford was married to actor and director Assi Dayan, whom she met when she acted in his film "King for a Day". For this film, she won the Kinor David award. The two had a son together, Lior Dayan. After the divorce, Lior was sent to a foster family in Kibbutz Dvir in the Negev, and Langford left Israel for London and then for New York. She married a second time, a marriage in which she gave birth to her second daughter Daniela, and then divorced. Later, she met Gil Bankstein, a former Israeli, and married him. The two lived together in Los Angeles.
Regarding her relationship with her ex-husband Dayan, who passed away in 2014, she said in a past interview with Ynet:
"We were on very good terms in recent years. I met with him every time I arrived in Israel. The last time I saw Assi, we talked about the fact that we had become grandparents. He was very happy about that."
In the last decade, Langford participated in several Israeli series, among others in the series "My Successful Sisters". Before that, in 2013, she also participated together with her son Lior in the show "Connected". In 2020, she participated in the series "Normal", which her son created inspired by his true story, and played his mother in it.
"Obviously, my biggest scar is Lior. For years, a sense of guilt haunted me, how I left him at the age of two and why he had to grow up with a foster family in a kibbutz. Today I understand that I suffered from postpartum depression, but then it wasn't identified, and Assi certainly didn't make it easier for me during that period. I was sure I was a terrible person. I left the country after four years, after I divorced, and no one thought to ask why Assi wasn't raising Lior. The blame is always placed on the woman."
She managed to rehabilitate her relationship with her son and also helped him later in his drug rehabilitation:
"Lior and I had a corrective experience. I was with him here for two and a half years during his rehabilitation period. Today we are in a different place, in wonderful relations."
