Hiam Abbass Biography

Hiam Abbass was born on November 30, 1960. She is also referred to as Hiyam Abbas. She is an Israeli-Palestinian actress and film director. She was born into a Palestinian family in Nazareth, Israel. She was raised in the village of Deir Hanna.

During the filming of the Steven Spielberg film Munich, Abbass lived in a hotel with the Palestinian Arab and Israeli actors for three months. During that time, they had many discussions that “helped both sides grow closer.” In an interview in 2006, Abbass said, “I still remember how difficult it was for the Arab actors to manhandle the Israeli actors in the first scene where the Israeli national team is taken hostage.”

Hiam Abbass Married

Hiam Abass is married to Zinedine Soualem. They have two children, Lina and Mouna.

Hiam Abbass  And Zinedine Soualem

They are couples, sharing a similar career of acting and being directors of various movies.

Hiam Abbass Career

Abbass is known for her roles in Satin Rouge (2002), Haifa (1996), Paradise Now (2005), The Syrian Bride (2004), Free Zone (2005), Dawn of the World (2008), The Visitor (2008), Lemon Tree (2008), Every Day is a Holiday (2009) and Amreeka (2009). In Spielberg’s film, depicting the response to the Munich Massacre, she also served as a dialect and acting consultant. She directed two short films, Le Pain (2001), and La Danse éternelle (2004). She portrays humanitarian Hind al-Husseini in Julian Schnabel’s film Miral (2010), based on the life of Husseini and her orphanage.

In 2002, she appeared in Satin Rouge by Raja Amari, a film about the self-discovery of a middle aged Tunisian widow. She also a similar role in The Syrian Bride, about a Druze woman eager to break down barriers. Abbass appeared in the French films Le sac de farine and Le temps de la balle. In 2008, she played the mother of an illegal Syrian immigrant in Tom McCarthy’s movie The Visitor, and the mother of an Iraqi soldier in Abbas Fahdel’s film Dawn of the World. Also in 2008, she played the principal role in Israeli director Eran Riklis’s film Lemon Tree (Etz Limon in Hebrew).

For this role, she won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In Jim Jarmusch’s 2009 film The Limits of Control, in the role of Driver, she recites in Classical Arabic one of the film’s leitmotif-phrases, “He who thinks he is bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery. There he will see what life really is.” Abbass also appears in A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2011), a French-Québéecois-Israeli film produced by Thierry Binisti. It is based upon the young adult novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti. She plays the role of Naïm’s mother.

In 2012, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. She made her directorial feature film debut with The Inheritance in 2012. In 2017 she played Freysa, the head of the replicant freedom movement, in Blade Runner 2049. Abbass has also acted in three TV shows: The Promise (2011), The State (2017), and Succession (2018).

Hiam Abass during photo session

Hiam Abbass Films

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Hiam Abbass Interview on “The Visitor”

Hiam Abbass News

Did Hiam Abbass Secretly get Married?

Updated on: September 3, 2018

Reports from the Jerusalem Daily News yesterday (September 2, 2018), suggest the actress best known for her roles in Lemon Tree or Munich has secretly got hitched to her long-term relationship.

Intimate Ceremony with Family and Friends

There had already been speculation that the loved-up pair were set to announce their engagement but it sounds like they might have just jumped straight to wedded bliss! The paper says the actress has been spotted wearing a new wedding ring earlier this week. The couple is said to have exchanged vows in an intimate morning ceremony at a secret location, before few close friends and family members.

Was there a secret wedding? That remains a mystery for now, as the actress’s rep hasn’t commented, nor the couple released an official statement yet.

Source: https://en.mediamass.net