Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal | |
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Birth name | Loubna Azabal |
Born | Brussels, Belgium | 15 August 1973
Medium | Actress |
Nationality | Belgium Morocco |
Alma mater | Royal Conservatory of Brussels |
Years active | 1998–present |
Notable works and roles | Paradise Now Incendies The Honourable Woman |
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
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 (
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
- Amal (2023)
Selected stage appearances
- Doña Rosita la soltera by Federico García Lorca (1999)
- L’Horloge et le désert by Ghassan Kanafani (2000)
- Une nuit arabe by Roland Schimmelpfenning (2002)
- Le Tampon vert by Aziz Chouaki (2003)
- L’Île aux esclaves by Marivaux(2006)
Awards
- Nominated: 2022 Magritte Award - Best Actress for Adam
- Nominated: 2020 Magritte Award - Best Actress for Tel Aviv on Fire
- Winner: 2019 Magritte Award - Best Actress for Above the Law
- Winner: 2015 Magritte Award - Best Supporting Actress for The Marchers
- Nominated: 2014 Magritte Award - Best Actress for Goodbye Marocco
- Winner: 2012 Magritte Award - Best Actress for Incendies
- Winner: 2011 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Incendies
- Winner: 2011 Jutra Award - Best Actress for Incendies
- Winner: 2011 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film for Incendies
- Winner: 2007 Jerusalem Film Festival - Most Promising Actress for Strangers
References
- ^ a b "Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen. Belgische actrice Lubna Azabal schittert in ‘Incendies’." (in Dutch) Cinefilm, Bloggen.be
- ^ "Lebanese filmmakers financially feted at Abu Dhabi Film Festival" October 25, 2010, The Daily Star (Lebanon)
- ^ "Villeneuve's Incendies wins eight Genies, including best picture". The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2011.
- ^ "Movie Review: 'Mary Magdalene' Offers an Inspired Revisionist Take on an Age-Old Story".
External links
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