As nursing-home residents get their close-up for a local film shoot, it’s lights, cameras, elders!

IT took more than 60 years, but Zelda Fassler has finally had her moment in the spotlight.

It happened last week at the Hebrew Home, a sprawling elder-care facility in Riverdale, where a three-day shoot for the short feature film “Playing With Matches” took place.

The elegantly coiffed 86-year-old appears in the film as an extra: a reminder of her decades-ago dream, thwarted by her family, to be an actress.

“My brother, a producer, asked me if I was ready to lie down on a producer’s couch,” says Fassler, who took acting classes at the Herbert Berghof Studio on Bank Street in her youth. “He said, ‘You don’t get anywhere unless you do it, sweetheart.’ ”

Crushed, Fassler followed a safer path, becoming an event planner for the Port Authority as well as a mother of three. But when she was invited to portray a resident of the fictional River Hills Home for the Aged, she jumped at the chance to indulge her lifelong love of acting.

Along with two other residents of the Hebrew Home, she’ll appear in the story of an unlikely pair — a cranky Jewish widower, Nathan Biderman, and Ella, the African-American surgeon who was on call the night his wife died from a bad reaction to anesthesia — who fall in love.

For 90-year-old Viola Demarco, the best part of the experience was performing alongside the film’s star, Dominic Chianese, known for his scene-stealing work as the crotchety and conniving Uncle Junior on “The Sopranos.”

“We’re paisans!” the 87-year-old Chianese exclaimed warmly after Demarco introduced herself.

But, unlike Fassler, Demarco never fancied her-