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Belgian actress (born 1973)
Lubna Azabal (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress.
Career
Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in
Brussels to a
Moroccan father and a
Spanish mother.
[1]
After studying at the
Royal Conservatory of Brussels , she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker
Vincent Lannoo chose her to act beside
Olivier Gourmet in his short film J'adore le cinéma .[
citation needed ] She performs in English, French and Arabic. She was raised
trilingual (French, Spanish and
Berber ).
[1]
Her most widely known film role is in the 2005 political
thriller ,
Paradise Now . She appears in a smaller role in
Ridley Scott 's
Body of Lies . She has a lead part alongside
Maggie Gyllenhaal in
Hugo Blick 's 2014 BBC TV miniseries
The Honourable Woman .
Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (
Abu Dhabi Film Festival ) for Best Actress for her role in the film
Incendies .
[2] She also won the
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the
31st Genie Awards and the
Magritte Award for Best Actress at the
2nd Magritte Awards .
[3] She starred opposite
Ben Foster in the independent film
Here (2011).
In 2018, Azabal appeared as Susannah in
Helen Edmundson 's film
Mary Magdalene .
[4]
Selected filmography
Pure Fiction (1998)
Les Siestes grenadine (1999) - Mabrouka
Loin (2001) - Sarah
Un monde presque paisible (2002) - Jacqueline
Aram (2002) - Méliné
Une minute de soleil en moins (2002, TV Movie) - Touria
25 degrés en hiver (2004) - Loubna
Viva Laldjérie (2004) - Goucem
Exils (2004) - Naima
Changing Times (Les temps qui changent ) (2004) - Nadia / Aïcha
Paradise Now (2005) - Suha
Strangers (2007) - Rana Sweid
24 mesures (2007) - Helly
Body of Lies (2008) - Aisha's Sister Cala
Occupation (2009, TV Mini-Series) - Aliya Nabil
Gamines (2009) - Angela Di Biaggio
Une chaîne pour deux (2009) - Corinne
Comme les cinq doigts de la main (2010) - Amel Zeroual
Incendies (2010) - Nawal Marwan
I Am Slave (2010)
Captifs (2010)
Here (2011) - Gadarine Nazarian
Coriolanus (2011) - First Citizen (Tamora)
Lipstikka (2011)
Free Men (2011) - Leila
Headwinds (2011) - La mère de Yamine
Goodbye Morocco (2012) - Dounia
Rock the Casbah (2013) - Kenza
The Marchers (2013) - Kheira
The Honourable Woman (2014, TV Mini-Series) - Atika Halabi
Grain (2015)
Ustica: The Missing Paper (2016) - Valja Bogdani
The Frozen Dead (2016-2017, TV Series) - Elisabeth Ferney
Light Thereafter (2017) - Soumaya
Lola Pater (2017) - Malika, Zino's mother
Grain (2017) - Beatrice
Catch the Wind (2017) - Nadia
Above the Law (2017) - Lucie Tesla
Mary Magdalene (2018) - Susannah
A Bluebird in My Heart (2018) - Nadia
Sofia (2018) - Leila
Tel Aviv on Fire (2018) - Tala / Manal aka Rachel
Hellhole (2019) - Samira
Adam (2019) - Abla
The Blue Caftan (2022) - Mina
El Houb (The Love) (2022) - Fatima Zahwani
Selected stage appearances
Awards
References
External links
International National Academics People Other