Hiam Abbass

Producer / Writer / Actor

Birthdate – November 30, 1960 (63 Years Old)

Birthplace – Nazareth, Israel

Hiam Abbass also Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director. Abbass was born in Nazareth, Israel, to a Muslim Arab family. She was raised in the village of Deir Hanna. Since the late 1980s, she has lived in Paris and holds French citizenship. During the filming of the Steven Spielberg film Munich (2005), 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.”

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Filmography

Insidious: The Red Door

Professor Armagan (2023)

Blade Runner 2049

Freysa (2017)

Bye Bye Tiberias

Self (2024)