Quentin Tarantino Cast Israeli Model Daniella Pick — Here’s How Their Romance Began

Quentin Tarantino keeps his personal life pretty low-key, but the backstory on how he ended up married to an Israeli pop singer is surprisingly sweet, occasionally glamorous, and a little movie-adjacent without turning into a press tour. Here is the quick version, with a few fun detours.

The relationship arc, at a glance

• 2009: They meet in Israel while Tarantino is promoting Inglourious Basterds. She is a model and singer. Sparks, then a breakup a few years later.
• 2016: They reconnect.
• 2017: Engaged. The New York City engagement party draws a very Tarantino guest list: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman.
• November 2018: Small Los Angeles wedding.
• 2019: London premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; she is on the carpet, newly married, rocking a very not-shy wedding ring.
• February 2020: Son, Leo, is born. Tarantino jokes on Jimmy Kimmel, "We almost didn't name him that because people would assume I named him after Leonardo DiCaprio."
• July 2022: Daughter arrives.
• Now: The family splits time between the U.S. and Israel, with a home in Tel Aviv's Ramat Aviv Gimel neighborhood.

Who is Daniella Pick outside the Tarantino orbit?

Daniella Pick grew up in a very music-forward family. Her dad is Svika Pick, a major Israeli pop star from the 1970s who later became a TV personality and is known locally as the Maestro. Her parents divorced when she was young, and Daniella and her sister, Sharona, ended up performing together as the Pick Sisters. They even competed at Kdam Eurovision in 2005 with an original track called Hello Hello.

She pivoted to a solo career after that, dropping her debut album, Sometimes Dreams Come True, in 2009, and releasing singles like More or Less and Love Me. On the TV front, she turned up on the Israeli reality series Goalstar, did season 3 of Rokdim Im Kokhavim (the local Dancing With the Stars), and she and Sharona were on Big Brother VIP season 1 back in 2009.

For the trivia crowd: despite being married to a director who casts half of Hollywood, she has only one role in his filmography — a small part as Daphna Ben-Cobo in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She still did the red-carpet thing with him for that film in London in 2019.

And in a more recent curveball, Pick starred as the female lead in the 2025 American crime drama The Perfect Gamble opposite David Arquette.

Home life, kids, and a little Hebrew

Tarantino and Pick welcomed their son, Leo, in February 2020 — and no, the name was not a DiCaprio tribute. It is a family name from Pick's side. Their daughter followed in July 2022. They bounce between the States and Israel, and when they are in Tel Aviv, they are in Ramat Aviv Gimel.

"We are very family-oriented. We love to be at home, to go out to dinner and to watch movies, both at home and at theaters. Quentin really loves my cooking and I make things that I know from home and also new things."

Also charming: Tarantino says he has been picking up some Hebrew thanks to the kids programming he watches with Leo. Not exactly cinephile fare, but it gets the job done.