Maryam Hassouni

Maryam Hassouni
Maryam Hassouni
	Hassouni in 2020
Born	21 September 1985 (age 38); Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002–present

Maryam Hassouni (born 21 September 1985) is a Dutch television and film actress. In 2006, she won an International Emmy Award for her role in Offers (2005).

Biography[edit]

Hassouni's parents, Alia and Abdelbaki Hassouni, are Moroccan and moved to the Netherlands a few years before she was born on 21 September 1985, in Amsterdam. She has a younger brother named Zakariya and a sister called Sarra.^[1]

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.^[2]

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 International Emmy Award for Children and Young People in 2004 and again in 2005.^[3]

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 TV film Offers.^[4]

Selected filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown
Year	Title	Role
2007	Kicks	Aaliyah
2008	Anubis en het Pad der 7 Zonden	Charlotte de Beaufort
2008	Dunya and Desi	Dunya El-Beneni
2012	Manslaughter	Amira
2013	Soof	Najat
2016	Soof 2	Najat
2020	The Host	Vera Tribbe
2021	Meskina	Leyla Idrissi

Television[edit]

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002–04	Dunya and Desi	Dunya El-Beneni	19 episodes
2005	Offers	Laila al Gatawi	Television film
2016	Flikken Maastricht	Rebecca Meeuws	1 episode
2016	Flikken Rotterdam	Lieve Jansons	1 season

Awards[edit]

International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress (2006) in Offers

References[edit]

^ Actorbio Dunya: Maryam Hassouni Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 25 November 2006
^ Curriculum Vitae Maryam Hassouni Archived 25 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 21 November 2006; retrieved 22 November 2006
^ Awards for "Dunya and Desi"; retrieved 23 November 2006
^ 34th International Emmy Awards Gala celebrates the world's best television programming Archived 19 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine, 20 November 2006; retrieved 21 November 2006

External links[edit]

Maryam Hassouni at IMDb

[1] Actorbio Dunya: Maryam Hassouni Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 25 November 2006

[2] Curriculum Vitae Maryam Hassouni Archived 25 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 21 November 2006; retrieved 22 November 2006

[3] Awards for "Dunya and Desi"; retrieved 23 November 2006

[4] 34th International Emmy Awards Gala celebrates the world's best television programming Archived 19 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine, 20 November 2006; retrieved 21 November 2006

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v t e International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress
2000s	He Lin (2005) Maryam Hassouni (2006) Muriel Robin (2007) Lucy Cohu (2008) Julie Walters (2009)
2010s	Helena Bonham Carter (2010) Julie Walters (2011) Cristina Banegas (2012) Fernanda Montenegro (2013) Bianca Krijgsman (2014) Anneke von der Lippe (2015) Christiane Paul (2016) Anna Friel (2017) Anna Schudt (2018) Marina Gera (2019)
2020s	Glenda Jackson (2020) Hayley Squires (2021) Lou de Laâge (2022) Karla Souza (2023)

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	Netherlands
People	Deutsche Synchronkartei