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.
1973
Lubna Azabal (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress.
Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother.
After studying at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, she began a theatrical career in Belgium.
1997
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 English, French and Arabic.
She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber).
2005
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.
2010
Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies.
2011
She starred opposite Ben Foster in the independent film Here (2011).
2014
She has a lead part alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal in Hugo Blick's 2014 BBC TV miniseries The Honourable Woman.
2018
In 2018, Azabal appeared as Susannah in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene.
