Hiam Abbass

Birthday: Nov 30, 1960

Bio: Born in Nazareth, raven-haired Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass jump-started her career in European films. Early parts included those of a policeman's wife in Rashid Masharawi's contemporary drama Haifa (1996), that of a North African immigrant during a period of intense anti-Algerian discrimination in Bouriem Guerdjou's fine, overlooked drama Vivre au Paradis… More Bio: Born in Nazareth, raven-haired Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass jump-started her career in European films. Early parts included those of a policeman's wife in Rashid Masharawi's contemporary drama Haifa (1996), that of a North African immigrant during a period of intense anti-Algerian discrimination in Bouriem Guerdjou's fine, overlooked drama Vivre au Paradis (1998), and the role of Om-Younes in Yousry Nasrallah's controversial Israel-Palestine epic Bab el Chams (The Door to the Sun). Abbass moved into Hollywood work courtesy of (and at the behest of) no less than Steven Spielberg, when the director cast her in a small role in his early '70s-set political thriller Munich. After this, Western roles began to arrive quickly and furiously; they included the mother of a terrorist (in the jihad-themed thriller Paradise Now [2005]) and the mother of the Virgin Mary (in Catherine Hardwicke's biblical cinematization The Nativity Story), in addition to a supporting role in Jean Becker's low-key seriocomedy Conversations with My Gardener (2007). Abbass then returned to Israel for the lead in Lemon Tree, a comedy about a Palestinian woman who refuses the minister of defense's bids to have her lemon tree torn down. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Dialogue avec mon jardinier (Conversations with My Gardener)

Etz Limon (Lemon Tree)

The Visitor

Paradise Now

Filmography

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2013)
- Intessar
- 67%
May In The Summer (2013)
- Actor
Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013)
- Actor
Rock The Casbah (2013)
- Actor
Inheritance (2012)
- Director, Screenwriter, Actor
Le Sac De Farine (2012)
- Actor
Miral (2011)
- Hind Husseini
- 17%
The Source (La source des femmes) (2011)
- Fatima
- 63%
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2011)
- Actor
I Am Slave (2010)
- Actor
Petites révélations (2010)
- Actor
Amreeka (2009)
- Raghda Halaby
- 87%
The Limits of Control (2009)
- Driver, Screenwriter
- 44%
Espion(s) (2009)
- Wafa
Every Day Is a Holiday (Chaque jour est une fête) (2009)
- Actor
Blood Relation (2009)
- Actor
Human Zoo (2008)
- Actor
Pomegranates and Myrrh (Al-mor wa al rumman) (2008)
- Actor
Etz Limon (Lemon Tree) (2008)
- Salma Zidane
- 92%
The Visitor (2008)
- Mouna
- 89%
Fabrique des sentiments, La (The Feelings Factory) (2008)
- Actor
Béthune sur Nil (2008)
- Actor
Dawn of the World (L'aube du monde) (2008)
- Actor
Un roman policier (A Police Romance) (2007)
- Actor
Disengagement (2007)
- Hiam
Dialogue avec mon jardinier (Conversations with My Gardener) (2007)
- woman
- 100%
The Nativity Story (2006)
- Anna
- 38%
Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest) (2006)
- Jenane
- 81%
Free Zone (2005)
- Leila
- 26%
Munich (2005)
- Marie Claude Hamshari
- 78%
Paradise Now (2005)
- Said's Mother
- 89%
The Syrian Bride (2004)
- Amal
- 88%
Bab el shams (The Gate of Sun) (2004)
- Actor
We Need a Vacation (2002)
- Actor
A Loving Father (2002)
- Actor
Satin Rouge (2002)
- Lilia
- 83%
Aime ton père (A Loving Father) (Honor Your Father) (2002)
- Actor
L'Ange de goudron (Tar Angel) (2001)
- Actor
Haïfa (1996)
- Oum Said
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Hiam Abbass Videos
                        
The Limits Of Control2 minutes 40 seconds

Munich2 minutes 26 seconds

Lemon Tree2 minutes 24 seconds

Miral2 minutes 5 seconds

Amreeka2 minutes 17 seconds

The Nativity Story1 minutes 7 seconds

The Visitor2 minutes 25 seconds

Une Bouteille A La Mer1 minute

Human Zoo2 minutes 58 seconds

Espions2 minute

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