Lubna Azabal

Actor Aug 15 (age 52) Bruxelles, Belgium 1998–2026 (28 year career)

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Biography

Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress, born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. After studing at the Conservatoire royal of Brussels, she 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. She performs in both French and Arabic films. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber). She also speaks fluent English and Arabic. Her most …

Known For

Film

Incendies

Nawal

Film

Body of Lies

Aisha's Sister Cala

Film

Simone: Woman of the Century

Hafsia Hamdad

Film

Mary Magdalene

Susannah

Film

Paradise Now

Suha

Film

The Blue Caftan

Mina

Film

Coriolanus

First Citizen (Tamora)

Film

The Honourable Woman

Atika Halibi

Filmography

Acting (82)

Movies (68)

Hot Water

Somewhere in Love

as Norah

Maldoror

as Mme Santos

Rabia

as Madame

Amal

as Amal

L'école des espions

as Anne-Sophie de Noblecourt

6.0

Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes

2024

as Self - Actress

6.8

Des blessures invisibles

as Larivière

The Blue Caftan

as Mina

For My Country

as Nadia

You Promised Me the Sea

2023

as Rabia

5.6

Simone: Woman of the Century

as Hafsia Hamdad

Rebel

as Leila

Champion

as Gloria

The Love

as Fatima Zahwani

Life Suits Me Well

as Rita

Suicide Club

as Anita

Adam

as Abla

Hellhole

as Samira

Mary Magdalene

as Susannah

Tel Aviv on Fire

as Tala

Sofia

as Leila

A Bluebird in My Heart

as Nadia

Lockdown

as Farah

Buğday

as Beatrice

Above the Law

as Lucie Tesla

Catch the Wind

as Nadia

Light Thereafter

as Soumaya

Ruby Is Dead

as Alice Tanner

Lola Pater

as Malika

Betelgeuse

as Sarah

Ustica: The Missing Paper

as Valja

My Revolution

as Samia

Rock the Casbah

as Kenza

The Marchers

as Kheira

Le Donne della Vucciria

Goodbye Morocco

as Dounia

Headwinds

as La mère de Yamine

Coriolanus

as First Citizen (Tamora)

5.8

Here

2011

as Gadarine Nazarian

5.0

Tout le monde descend

2011

as Leila El Fassi

Free Men

2011

as Warba Shlimane alias Leila

5.6

Comme les 5 doigts de la main

as Amel Zeroual

Incendies

as Nawal

I Am Slave

as Haleema

Sisters

as Angela Di Biaggio

Occupation

as Aliya Nabil

Bajo el mismo cielo

as Fathia

Body of Lies

as Aisha's Sister Cala

6.6

Une chaîne pour deux

2008

as Corinne

Strangers

as Rana Sweid

Echo

as Carole

24 Bars

as Helly

L'île des esclaves

Paradise Now

as Suha

Exiles

as Naima

Changing Times

as Nadia

Viva Algeria

as Goucem

25 Degrees in Winter

as Loubna

A Minute of Sun Less

Aram

as Méliné

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

2002

as Self

Almost Peaceful

as Jacqueline

Far Away

as Sarah

Les siestes Grenadine

1999

as Mabrouka

Pure fiction

1998

Une affaire turque

Malika

Television (14)

Ardennes

2025

as Anna Charou

Ganglands

as Anissa

Cheyenne & Lola

as Rachida

The Traveller

as Claire Elgouarch

The Collapse

as Sofia Desmarest

The Crimson Rivers

as Sabrina Harel

The Little Drummer Girl

as Fatmeh Al-Khadar

The Frozen Dead

as Elizabeth Ferney

Banking District

as Luna

Trepalium

as Lisbeth

Accusé

as Samia

The Honourable Woman

as Atika Halibi

Occupation

as Aliya Nabil

Malin Fors