Doria Achour (born 1 March 1991) is a French-Tunisian film director and actress.

Biography

Achour is the daughter of the Tunisian film director and actor

Lotfi Achour Lotfi Achour (Arabic: لطفي عاشور) is a Tunisian writer, producer and director for theater and cinema. He is the author of more than 25 theater productions on different stages (London, Paris, Festival In d'Avignon, Tunis, Carthage, Hammam ...

and a Russian mother who is a playwright. Her older brother is a playwright, and she has a younger brother. Achour grew up in the

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in an atmosphere that was "an artistic milieu, but not bourgeois." As a child, she accompanied her parents during their rehearsals and at their performances. In 2002, Achour portrayed the daughter of

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in ', directed by

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. Her mother helped her find the role, spotting an advertisement in ''

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''. After her first role, Achor took acting lessons for a year at Théâtre des Déchargeurs. She had several secondary roles in a few films, such as ''L'enemi naturel'' and ''L'École pour tous''. To focus on her studies, Achour paused her film career for several years. Achour received a degree in literature from

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

and later obtained a master's degree in cinema from

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. In 2012, Achour played the young Yasmeen in '' La fille publique'', and her character was inspired by the early life of

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. In 2013, Achour directed her first short film, ''Laisse-moi finir'', on the subject of life in Tunisia after the

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when the Islamists took control. It was screened in several festivals and received the Audience Award in the Made in Med short film competition of June 2014. Her performance in ''La fille publique'' drew the attention of the director Sylvie Ohayon, who cast the young actress as Stephanie in the 2014 film ''

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''. In 2016, Achour starred in her first Arabic film, ''Burning Hope''. She directed the short film ''Le reste est l'œuvre de l'homme'', which won the Jury Prize at the 2017

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. She played Leila, the missing daughter, in

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's 2018 film '' Ma fille''. Achur is an agnostic. She is a fan of medieval literature.

Partial filmography

*2002: '' Les Femmes... ou les enfants d'abord...'' *2004: ''L'enemi naturel'' *2005: ''

L'Annulaire ''The Ring Finger'' (french: L'Annulaire) is a French film released on 8 June 2005. It was written (based on a novel by Yōko Ogawa) and directed by Diane Bertrand. Plot Iris (Olga Kurylenko) is a young woman working in a bottle washing factor ...

'' *2006: ''L'École pour tous'' *2012: '' La fille publique'' *2013: ''Laisse-moi finir'' (short film, director) *2014: ''

'' *2014: ''Demain dès l'aube'' (short film, director) *2016: ''Burning Hope'' *2017: ''Le reste est l'œuvre de l'homme'' (director) *2018: '' Ma fille''

References

External links

Doria Acour
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Achour, Doria 1991 births Living people Tunisian women film directors Tunisian film directors 21st-century Tunisian actresses Tunisian film actresses Paris-Sorbonne University alumni People from Bern 21st-century French actresses French film actresses French people of Tunisian descent French people of Russian descent French agnostics