Tehila Yeshayahu-Adghe was born in 1973 in the village of Mai Lemomo in northern Ethiopia. She immigrated to Israel aged 10 in 1983 and grew up in Beersheba. She has lived in Jerusalem since 1994. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Theater (1999). In 2008 she joined the Hullegeb Theater Ensemble and starred in the one-woman play “On Her Own” which she performed on a tour in San Francisco. Since 2011, she is the house actress of the ensemble and has participated in all of its productions. Likewise, she played in the TV series “Mother’s Angel” (2016) and “The 1980s” (2016), among others, and in the films “The Ambassador’s Wife” (2016) and “Face to the Wall,” a short that competed for an Ophir Prize (2016). She participates in a variety of plays, holds acting workshops for children and youth at schools and community centers and has acted as MC at a variety of cultural events. Tehila is divorced and has a son and a daughter.