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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 15, 1973
Place of Birth
Bruxelles, Belgium
Also Known As
- לובנה אזאבל
- 루브나 아자발
Lubna Azabal
0.8 Popularity
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 widely known role is in the 2005 Golden Globe-winning Palestinian political thriller, Paradise Now. She can also be spotted in a smaller role in Ridley Scott's recent film Body of Lies. Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies. She also won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 31st Genie Awards.
Known For
6.6
Mme Santos
Maldoror
2025
6.5
Madame
Rabia
2024
6.4
Norah
Somewhere in Love
2024
6.2
Anne-Sophie de Noblecourt
L'école des espions
2024
6.4
Larivière
Des blessures invisibles
2024
6.6
Self - Actress
Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
2024
7.7
Amal
Amal
2024
5.6
Rabia
You Promised Me the Sea
2023
7.3
Mina
The Blue Caftan
2023
6.1
Nadia
For My Country
2023
Credits
Maldoror
as Mme Santos
2025
6.6
Rabia
as Madame
2024
6.5
Somewhere in Love
as Norah
2024
6.4
L'école des espions
as Anne-Sophie de Noblecourt
2024
6.2
Des blessures invisibles
as Larivière
2024
6.4
Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
as Self - Actress
2024
6.6
Amal
as Amal
2024
7.7
You Promised Me the Sea
as Rabia
2023
5.6
The Blue Caftan
as Mina
2023
7.3
For My Country
as Nadia
2023
6.1
The Love
as Fatima Zahwani
2022
6.9
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Hafsia Hamdad
2022
7.9
Rebel
as Leila
2022
8.0
Champion
as Gloria
2022
6.6
Life Suits Me Well
as Rita
2021
6.3
Suicide Club
as Anita
2021
7.0
Ganglands
as Anissa
2021
7.1
Cheyenne & Lola
as Rachida
2020
7.0
The Collapse
as Sofia Desmarest
2019
7.9
Adam
as Abla
2019
6.9
The Traveller
as Claire Elgouarch
2019
7.0
Hellhole
as Samira
2019
4.0
The Crimson Rivers
as Sabrina Harel
2018
6.7
The Little Drummer Girl
as Fatmeh Al-Khadar
2018
7.0
Lockdown
as Farah
2018
6.0
Sofia
as Leila
2018
6.2
Tel Aviv on Fire
as Tala
2018
6.7
Mary Magdalene
as Susannah
2018
6.3
A Bluebird in My Heart
as Nadia
2018
5.9
Above the Law
as Lucie Tesla
2017
5.9
Buğday
as Beatrice
2017
5.7
Banking District
as Luna
2017
6.3
Catch the Wind
as Nadia
2017
5.9
Lola Pater
as Malika
2017
6.2
Ruby Is Dead
as Alice Tanner
2017
5.4
Light Thereafter
as Soumaya
2017
7.0
The Frozen Dead
as Elizabeth Ferney
2017
6.4
Betelgeuse
as Sarah
2016
5.0
My Revolution
as Samia
2016
5.8
Ustica: The Missing Paper
as Valja
2016
5.5
Trepalium
as Lisbeth
2016
6.0
Accusé
as Samia
2015
7.5
The Honourable Woman
as Atika Halibi
2014
7.3
The Marchers
as Kheira
2013
6.4
Rock the Casbah
as Kenza
2013
6.3
🎬
Le Donne della Vucciria
2013
5.0
Goodbye Morocco
as Dounia
2013
5.1
Headwinds
as La mère de Yamine
2011
5.8
Free Men
as Warba Shlimane alias Leila
2011
5.6
Tout le monde descend
2011
0.0
Coriolanus
as First Citizen (Tamora)
2011
5.8
Here
as Gadarine Nazarian
2011
5.1
Incendies
as Nawal
2010
8.1
I Am Slave
as Haleema
2010
6.3
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
as Amel Zeroual
2010
6.2
Sisters
as Angela Di Biaggio
2009
5.3
Bajo el mismo cielo
as Fathia
2009
2.0
Occupation
as Aliya Nabil
2009
0.0
Occupation
as Aliya Nabil
2009
7.8
Body of Lies
as Aisha's Sister Cala
2008
6.6
Une chaîne pour deux
as Corinne
2008
0.0
24 Bars
as Helly
2007
3.3
Strangers
as Rana Sweid
2007
6.1
Echo
as Carole
2007
3.0
L'île des esclaves
2006
0.0
Paradise Now
as Suha
2005
6.9
Changing Times
as Nadia
2004
5.5
25 Degrees in Winter
as Loubna
2004
5.0
Exiles
as Naima
2004
6.1
Viva Algeria
as Goucem
2004
5.9
A Minute of Sun Less
2003
0.0
Almost Peaceful
as Jacqueline
2002
5.7
Aram
as Méliné
2002
5.4
🎬
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
2002
0.0
Far Away
as Sarah
2001
6.0
Les siestes Grenadine
as Mabrouka
1999
0.0
Pure fiction
1998
0.0
🎬
Tomahawk Springs
N/A
0.0