Maryam Hassouni
Maryam Hassouni is a Dutch television and film actress. In 2006 she won an International Emmy Award for her role in Offers.Biography
Her parents Alia and Abdelbaki Hassouni are Moroccan and moved to the Netherlands a few years before Maryam was born on 21 September 1985 in Amsterdam. She has a younger brother named Zakariya and a sister called Sarra.
Maryam Hassouni received her high school diploma in 2003. She studied Museology until 2005, and studied Law at the Free University in Amsterdam but failed the course.
In 2002 she started her acting career with the role of Dunya El-Beneni in the television series Dunya and Desi, which was nominated for an International Emmy Award 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 her role Laila al Gatawi in the 2005 Dutch TV film Offers.Filmography
Television series
List of television series in which Maryam Hassouni performed as an actor:
- Dunya and Desi
- Shouf shouf!
- One night stand: Liefde, dank je wel
- Verborgen Gebreken
- Flikken Maastricht
- Flikken Rotterdam
List of films in which Maryam Hassouni performed as an actor:
- Offers
- Blondje
- Swink!?
- Kicks
- Anna
- Anubis en het Pad der 7 Zonden
- Manslaughter
- Soof
- The Host
Awards
- International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for her role Laila al Gatawi in Offers