Hiam Abbass Actress - Date of Birth 30 November 1960, Nazareth, Israel
Mini Bio (1) Hiam Abbass was born on November 30, 1960 in Nazareth, Israel. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitor (2007), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and Lemon Tree (2008).
Spouse (1) Zinedine Soualem (? - ?)
Trivia (2) 1. Has an Israeli and a French passport. 2. She is an Israeli Arab.
Hiam Abbass Actress - Date of Birth 30 November 1960, Nazareth, Israel
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 ) 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.
Biography by Nathan Southern [-]
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