Lubna Azabal
| Lubna Azabal لبنى أزابال | |
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| Birth name | Loubna Azabal |
| Born | Brussels, Belgium |
| 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 is a Belgian actress. She is known for her performances in Paradise Now and Incendies.
Biography
[edit]Lubna Azabal was born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber).[1]
She studying at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Azabal 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.
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.[citation needed]
She starred opposite Ben Foster in the independent film Here (2011).[citation needed]
In 2018, Azabal appeared as Susannah in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene.[2]
Awards
[edit]Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies.[3] 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.[4]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Pure Fiction (1998)
- Les Siestes grenadine (1999) - Mabrouka
- Loin (2001) - Sarah
- Almost Peaceful (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
- For My Country (2022) - Nadia
- Amal (2023)
- Maldoror (2024)
- Somewhere In Love (2024)
- Rabia (2024)
Selected stage appearances
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Winner: 2023 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - Best Actress for Amal
- 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 31st Genie Awards - 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
[edit]- ^ "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 [dead link]
- ^ "Movie Review: 'Mary Magdalene' Offers an Inspired Revisionist Take on an Age-Old Story".
- ^ "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.
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