Lubna Azabal

Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal
Birth name	Loubna Azabal
Born	15 August 1973 (age 51); 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 (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress.

Career

Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother.^[1]

After studying at the Royal Conservatory 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.^{[citation needed]} She performs in English, French and Arabic. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber).^[1]

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.

Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies.^[2] 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.^[3] She starred opposite Ben Foster in the independent film Here (2011).

In 2018, Azabal appeared as Susannah in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene.^[4]

Selected filmography

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
Amal (2023)
Maldoror (2024)

Selected stage appearances

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

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

^ ^a ^b "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
^ "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.
^ "Movie Review: 'Mary Magdalene' Offers an Inspired Revisionist Take on an Age-Old Story".

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[blogg-1] "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

[2] "Lebanese filmmakers financially feted at Abu Dhabi Film Festival" October 25, 2010, The Daily Star (Lebanon)

[3] "Villeneuve's Incendies wins eight Genies, including best picture". The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2011.

[4] "Movie Review: 'Mary Magdalene' Offers an Inspired Revisionist Take on an Age-Old Story".

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Actor (1968–2021)	Gerard Parkes (1968) No award (1969) Doug McGrath and Paul Bradley (1970) Jean Duceppe (1971) Gordon Pinsent (1972) Jacques Godin (1973) No award (1974) Stuart Gillard (1975) André Melançon (1976) Len Cariou (1977) Richard Gabourie (1978) Christopher Plummer (1980) Thomas Peacocke (1981) Nick Mancuso (1982) Donald Sutherland (1983) Eric Fryer (1984) Gabriel Arcand (1985) John Wildman (1986) Gordon Pinsent (1987) Roger Lebel (1988) Jeremy Irons (1989) Lothaire Bluteau (1990) Rémy Girard (1991) Tony Nardi (1992) Tom McCamus (1993) Maury Chaykin (1994) David La Haye (1995) William Hutt (1996) Ian Holm (1997) Roshan Seth (1998) Bob Hoskins (1999) Tony Nardi (2000) Brendan Fletcher (2001) Luc Picard (2002) Rémy Girard (2003) Roy Dupuis (2004) Michel Côté (2005) Roy Dupuis (2006) Gordon Pinsent (2007) Natar Ungalaaq (2008) Joshua Jackson (2009) Paul Giamatti (2010) Mohamed Fellag (2011) James Cromwell (2012) Gabriel Arcand (2013) Antoine Olivier Pilon (2014) Jacob Tremblay (2015) Stephan James (2016) Nabil Rajo (2017) Théodore Pellerin (2018) Mark O'Brien (2019) Michael Greyeyes (2020) Liam Diaz (2021)
Actress (1968–2021)	Geneviève Bujold (1968) No award (1969) Geneviève Bujold (1970) Ann Knox (1971) Micheline Lanctôt (1972) Geneviève Bujold (1973) No award (1974) Margot Kidder (1975) Marilyn Lightstone (1976) Monique Mercure (1977) Helen Shaver (1978) Kate Lynch (1980) Marie Tifo (1981) Margot Kidder (1982) Rae Dawn Chong (1983) Martha Henry (1984) Louise Marleau (1985) Margaret Langrick (1986) Martha Henry (1987) Sheila McCarthy (1988) Jackie Burroughs (1989) Rebecca Jenkins (1990) Pascale Montpetit (1991) Janet Wright (1992) Sheila McCarthy (1993) Sandra Oh (1994) Helena Bonham Carter (1995) Martha Henry (1996) Molly Parker (1997) Sandra Oh (1998) Sylvie Moreau (1999) Marie-Josée Croze (2000) Élise Guilbault (2001) Arsinée Khanjian (2002) Sarah Polley (2003) Pascale Bussières (2004) Seema Biswas (2005) Julie Le Breton (2006) Julie Christie (2007) Ellen Burstyn (2008) Karine Vanasse (2009) Lubna Azabal (2010) Vanessa Paradis (2011) Rachel Mwanza (2012) Gabrielle Marion-Rivard (2013) Anne Dorval (2014) Brie Larson (2015) Tatiana Maslany (2016) Sally Hawkins (2017) Émilie Bierre (2018) Nahéma Ricci (2019) Michelle Pfeiffer (2020) Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (2021)
Lead Performance in a Film (2022)	Lamar Johnson (2022)
Lead Performance in a Comedy Film (2023–present)	Jay Baruchel (2023)
Lead Performance in a Drama Film (2023–present)	Amrit Kaur (2023)
Canadian Film Awards 1968–1978, Genie Awards 1980-2011, Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present. Separate awards were presented by gender prior to 2022; a single unified category for best performance regardless of gender has been presented since.