Lubna Azabal (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress of Moroccan– Spanish descent.
Career
Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
Vincent Lannoo
Vincent Lannoo is a Belgian film director and writer.
Career
After developing an interest in filmmaking, Lannoo enrolled at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Brussels and graduated from there in 1995. His first short film, ''I Love the Movi ...
chose her to act beside
Olivier Gourmet
Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963) is a Belgian actor.
Gourmet was born in Namur. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in '' Le Fils'' by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne ...
in his short film ''J'adore le cinéma''. She performs in English, French and Arabic. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber).
Her most widely known film role is in the 2005 political
thriller
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* Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television
** Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre
Comics
* ''Thriller'' (DC Comics), a comic book series published 1983–84 by DC Comics i ...
, '' Paradise Now''. She appears in a smaller role in
Ridley Scott
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's '' Body of Lies''. She has a lead part alongside
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margalit Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal (; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenh ...
2nd Magritte Awards
The 2nd Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2011 in Belgium and took place on February 4, 2012, at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels beginning at 7:45 p.m. CE ...
. She starred opposite Ben Foster in the independent film '' Here'' (2011).
In 2018, Azabal appeared as Susannah in Helen Edmundson's film ''
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and
resurr ...
''.
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
''Caged'' (french: Captifs) is a 2010 French horror film directed and co-written by Yann Gozlan and it is based on a true story. The film is about a woman named Carole who is traumatized after seeing her friend Laura being killed by a dog twenty ye ...
Free Men
"Free Men" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, which originally appeared in his collection ''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' (1966) and was later collected in Expanded Universe (Heinlein), ''Expanded Univer ...
'' (2011) - Leila
*'' Headwinds'' (2011) - La mère de Yamine
*''Goodbye Morocco'' (2012) - Dounia
*''
Rock the Casbah
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Grain
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'' (2015)
*''The Missing Paper'' (2016) - Valja
*'' The Frozen Dead'' (2016-2017, TV Series) - Elisabeth Ferney
*''Light Thereafter'' (2017) - Soumaya
*''Lola Pater'' (2017) - Malika, la mère de Zino
*''
Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit ( caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legu ...
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and
resurr ...
'' (2018) - Susannah
*'' A Bluebird in My Heart'' (2018) - Nadia
*''Sofia'' (2018) - Leila
*''
Tel Aviv on Fire
''Tel Aviv on Fire'' (Hebrew: תל אביב על האש, ''Tel Aviv Al Ha'Esh'') is a 2018 internationally co-produced comedy-drama satire film directed by Sameh Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally ...
Adam
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'' (2019) - Abla
*''The blue caftan'' (2022) - Mina
Selected stage appearances
*''Doña Rosita la soltera'' by
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...
(1999)
*''L’Horloge et le désert'' by Ghassan Kanafani (2000)
*''Une nuit arabe'' by
Roland Schimmelpfenning
Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...
(2002)
*''Le Tampon vert'' by
Aziz Chouaki
Aziz Chouaki (Arabic: عزيز شواكي) was born in 1951 in Tizi Rached, Algeria. He died in France, 2019. He was a writer and playwright known for his somewhat daring political and literary views. His literary works include the novel ''Baya- ...
*Nominated: 2022 Magritte Award - Best Actress for ''
Adam
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
''
*Nominated: 2020 Magritte Award - Best Actress for ''
Tel Aviv on Fire
''Tel Aviv on Fire'' (Hebrew: תל אביב על האש, ''Tel Aviv Al Ha'Esh'') is a 2018 internationally co-produced comedy-drama satire film directed by Sameh Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally ...
Goodbye Marocco
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Film
* ''Goodbye'' (1918 film), a British drama directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Goodbye'' (1995 film) (''Tot Ziens!''), a Dutch film directed by Heddy Honigmann
* ''Goodbye'' ...