Lina El Arabi

Lina El Arabi (born 11 August 1995) is a French actress of Moroccan heritage.[2][3]

Lina El Arabi
Lina El Arabi on film poster of A Wedding, 2016[1]
Born (1995-08-11) 11 August 1995
Choisy-le-Roi, France
OccupationActress
Known forA Wedding

Biography

El Arabi was born in Choisy-le-Roi, France, in 1995. At age six, she began playing violin at the Choisy-le-Roi conservatory,[4] and at ten, she got involved in theatre work.[5] She later also studied journalism at the Institut pratique du journalisme in Paris.[4]

In 2016, she was cast in the lead role of the television film Ne m'abandonne pas, about a radicalized Muslim teenager.[6]

In 2017, she landed the lead role of Zahira Kazim in Stephan Streker's A Wedding (French: Noces), where she plays a young Belgian-Pakistani girl who is forced by her family into a traditional marriage. El Arabi won the Valois award for best actress at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.[7]

In 2019, El Arabi had a recurring role in the comedy series Family Business, which was distributed internationally by Netflix.[8]

Selected filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2016 A Wedding Zahira Kazim
2017 Eye on Juliet[9] Ayusha
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2016 Ne m'abandonne pas Chama Television film
2017 Kaboul Kitchen Pissenlit 12 episodes
2019 Family Business Aïda Benkikir 7 episodes

References
  1. "Rompre avec la tradition" [Breaking with Tradition]. ledevoir.com (in French). 28 March 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. "Stephan Streker, l'interview pour "Noces"". RTBF (in French). 10 March 2017. [...]avec Lina El Arabi qui joue le rôle principal, vous avez choisi une Française d'origine marocaine[...]
  3. "Lina El Arabi, l'étoile montante du cinéma français" [Lina El Arabi, Rising Star of French Cinema]. femmesdumaroc.com (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. "Lina Elarabi, actrice à fleur de peau" [Lina El Arabi, Actress on the Edge]. telerama.fr (in French). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  5. "Lina El Arabi: rencontre avec la révélation de "Noces", film choc et engagé". Cheek Magazine (in French). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  6. "Lina Elarabi, la star de "Ne m'abandonne pas" : "Daech rêve que le FN passe en France"" [Lina Elarabi, the Star of "Ne m'abandonne pas": "Daesh Dreams of the FN winning in France"]. lci.fr (in French). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  7. "Lina El Arabi to Lead the Cast of Les meilleures". cineuropa.org. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  8. "Lina El Arabi". senscritique.com (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  9. "Actress Lina El Arabi is about to be everywhere". Elle Canada. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2019.



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