Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal (* 1973 in Brussels , Belgium ) is a Belgian- Moroccan - Spanish actress .
biography
Azabal is the daughter of a Moroccan and a Spaniard. She was raised in three languages (French, Spanish and Berber ). She also speaks English, Flemish and Arabic.
Lubna Azabal attended both the private drama school de Kleine Academie and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles) in Brussels . She started her acting career at the theater. In 1996 she got her first role in a film. In 1997 she was cast by Belgian filmmaker Vincent Lannoo for his short film J'adore le Cinéma . She then moved to Paris and played mainly in French cinema and TV productions.
She was best known for her role in the Palestinian political drama Paradise Now , which won the audience award at the Berlinale in 2005 and the Golden Globe in 2006 and was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2006. After the great success of Paradise Now , she was also offered roles in English-language big-budget cinema productions. In 2008 she initially got a smaller role alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in the US thriller The Man Who Never Lived , in 2011 she then played alongside Gerard Butler , Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave in the British historical drama Coriolanus .
In 2011 she again achieved international recognition when she was named Best Female Lead Actress in Incendies at the Genie Awards , the Canadian equivalent to the Academy Awards . The drama received a total of eight Genie Awards , including best film and best director, and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film in the same year. For her portrayal in Tueurs (2017) she was awarded the Belgian Magritte Film Prize for Best Actress in 2019 .
In 2009 she moved back to Belgium from Paris.
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
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- 2002: (France) La source des Sarrazins (TV movie) - Director: Denis Malleval
- 2008: (Spain) Bajo el mismo cielo (TV movie) - Director: Silvia Munt
- 2009: (France) Suite noire (TV series), episode On achève bien les disc-jockeys - directed by Orso Miret
- 2009: ( UK ) Occupation ( TV series )
- 2010: (Great Britain) I Am Slave (TV Movie) - Director: Gabriel Range
- 2011: (France) Le Repaire de la vouivre (TV movie) - Director: Edwin Baily
- 2011: (France) Tout le monde descend (TV film) - Director: Renaud Bertrand
- 2014: (UK) The Honorable Woman (TV series)
- 2015: (France) City Without a Name (Trepalium) (TV series)
- 2019: (France) The Collapse (TV series), an episode
theatre
- 1999: Dona Rosita (Doña Rosita Remains Single or The Language of Flowers) by Federico García Lorca
- 2000: L'Horloge et le désert (What remains for you) by Ghassan Kanafani
- 2002: Une nuit arabe (The Arabian Night) by Roland Schimmelpfennig
- 2003: Le Tampon vert by Aziz Chouaki
- 2006: L'Île des esclaves (The Slave Island) by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
Awards
- 2010: Black Pearl Award ( Middle East International Film Festival - Abu Dhabi ) for Best Actress in Incendies
- 2011: Genie Award for Best Actress in Incendies
- 2019: Magritte as best leading actress in Tueurs
Web links
- Lubna Azabal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Video interview (English) from 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Starguide, Lubna Azabal. prisma-Verlag GmbH & Co KG, accessed on August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ The woman who sings, actor. Arsenal Filmverleih, accessed August 28, 2011 .
- ↑ 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011, 78 Lubna Azabal. Arabian Business Publishing Ltd., accessed August 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Lubna Azabal. agencesartistiques.com, accessed April 30, 2016 .
- ^ Lubna Azabal, Belgium. European Film Promotion (EFP), 2011, accessed April 30, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Judy Lung: Incendies wins eight Genie Awards including Best Motion Picture. Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, March 10, 2011, archived from the original on July 6, 2011 ; accessed on August 28, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Gayle MacDonald: Villeneuve's Incendies wins eight Genies, including best picture. The Globe and Mail Inc., March 10, 2011, accessed August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ ADFF announces winners of 2010 Black Pearl Awards. (No longer available online.) Middle East Online October 22, 2010, archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; accessed on August 28, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lebanese filmmakers financially feted at Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The Daily Star Lebanon, October 25, 2010; archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; accessed on August 29, 2011 .
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SURNAME | Azabal, Lubna |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels , Belgium |