Maryam Hassouni (born 21 September 1985) is a Dutch television and film actress. In 2006, she won an

International Emmy Award The International Emmy Awards, or International Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based International Academy of Television Arts and Sci ...

for her role in ''

Offers ''Offers'' is a 2005 Dutch television film directed by Dana Nechushtan and starring Maryam Hassouni and Jacob Derwig. The thriller film is a personal drama about suicide bombers and counter-terrorism in Western Europe. In 2006 Maryam Hassouni ...

'' (2005).

Biography

Hassouni's parents, Alia and Abdelbaki Hassouni, are Moroccan and moved to the

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a few years before she was born on 21 September 1985, in

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. She has a younger brother named Zakariya and a sister called Sarra. Hassouni received her high school diploma in 2003. She studied museology until 2005, then took law at the Free University in Amsterdam but failed the course. In 2002, she began her acting career with the role of Dunya El-Beneni in the television series '' Dunya and Desi'', which was nominated for an

for Children and Young People in 2004 and again in 2005. In 2006, she won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for the role of Laila al Gatawi in the 2005 Dutch

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''.34th International Emmy Awards Gala celebrates the world's best television programming
, November 20, 2006; retrieved November 21, 2006

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Awards

for Best Performance by an Actress (2006) in ''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassouni, Maryam 1985 births Dutch film actresses Dutch television actresses International Emmy Award for Best Actress winners Living people Dutch people of Moroccan descent Actresses from Amsterdam 21st-century Dutch actresses