Lina El Arabi (born 11 August 1995) is a French actress of Moroccan heritage.
Biography
El Arabi was born in
Choisy-le-Roi
Choisy-le-Roi () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France.
Geography
Choisy-le-Roi is located southeast from the center of Paris, on both banks of the river Seine. The neighbouring commu ...
, France, in 1995. At age six, she began playing violin at the Choisy-le-Roi conservatory,
and at ten, she got involved in theatre work. She later also studied journalism at the ''Institut pratique du journalisme'' in Paris.
In 2016, she was cast in the lead role of the television film ''
Ne m'abandonne pas
''Ne m'abandonne pas'' (French for ''Don't Leave Me'') is a French TV movie directed by Xavier Durringer, which was broadcast on 3 February 2016 on France 2. The film deals with the topic of young French Muslims who are radicalized and encoura ...
'', about a radicalized Muslim teenager.
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 Film Festival.
In 2019, El Arabi had a recurring role in the comedy series ''
Family Business
A family business is a commercial organization in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family, related by blood or marriage or adoption, who has both the ability to influence the vision of the business and the willingn ...
'', which was distributed internationally by
Netflix
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.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
People from Choisy-le-Roi
French people of Moroccan descent
21st-century French actresses
French film actresses
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