Lubna Azabal

Personal Info

Birthday

August 15, 1973

(51 years old)

Place of Birth

Bruxelles, Belgium

Also Known As

לובנה אזאבל

루브나 아자발

Lubna Azabal

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).

Known For

Incendies

The Crimson Rivers

The Little Drummer Girl

Ganglands

The Traveller

The Honourable Woman

The Collapse

Mary Magdalene

Filmography

2025
Maldoror
as Mme Santos
2024
Rabia
as Madame
Somewhere in Love
as Norah
L'école des espions
as Anne-Sophie de Noblecourt
Des blessures invisibles
as Larivière
Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
as Self - Actress
Amal
as Amal
2023
You Promised Me the Sea
as Rabia
The Blue Caftan
as Mina
For My Country
as Nadia
2022
The Love
as Fatima Zahwani
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Hafsia Hamdad
Rebel
as Leila
Champion
as Gloria
2021
Life Suits Me Well
as Rita
Suicide Club
as Anita
2019
Adam
as Abla
Hellhole
as Samira
2018
Lockdown
as Farah
Sofia
as Leila
Tel Aviv on Fire
as Tala
Mary Magdalene
as Susannah
A Bluebird in My Heart
as Nadia
2017
Above the Law
as Lucie Tesla
Buğday
as Beatrice
Catch the Wind
as Nadia
Lola Pater
as Malika
Ruby Is Dead
as Alice Tanner
Light Thereafter
as Soumaya
2016
Betelgeuse
as Sarah
My Revolution
as Samia
Ustica: The Missing Paper
as Valja
2013
The Marchers
as Kheira
Rock the Casbah
as Kenza
Goodbye Morocco
as Dounia
2011
Headwinds
as La mère de Yamine
Free Men
as Warba Shlimane alias Leila
Coriolanus
as First Citizen (Tamora)
Here
as Gadarine Nazarian
2010
Incendies
as Nawal
I Am Slave
as Haleema
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
as Amel Zeroual
2009
Sisters
as Angela Di Biaggio
Bajo el mismo cielo
as Fathia
2008
Body of Lies
as Aisha's Sister Cala
Une chaîne pour deux
as Corinne
2007
24 Bars
as Helly
Strangers
as Rana Sweid
Echo
as Carole
2005
Paradise Now
as Suha
2004
Changing Times
as Nadia
25 Degrees in Winter
as Loubna
Exiles
as Naima
Viva Algeria
as Goucem
2002
Almost Peaceful
as Jacqueline
Aram
as Méliné
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
2001
Far Away
as Sarah
1999
Les siestes Grenadine
as Mabrouka