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Lubna Azabal

Belgian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lubna Azabal
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Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress. She is known for her performances in Paradise Now and Incendies.

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Biography

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

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]

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Awards

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

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Selected stage appearances

Awards

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References

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