Maryam Hassouni

Maryam Hassouni
Born	September 21, 1985 (1985-09-21) (age 26) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Religion	Muslim

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

Biography

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

Maryam Hassouni received her high school diploma in 2003. She studied Museology until 2005, and currently studies Law at the Free University in Amsterdam.^[2]

In 2002 she started her acting career with the role of Dunya El-Beneni in the television series Dunya and Desie, 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 her role Laila al Gatawi in the 2005 Dutch TV film Offers.^[4]

Filmography

Television series

List of television series in which Maryam Hassouni performed as an actor:^[5]

• Dunya and Desie (2002–2004)
• Shouf shouf! (2006–2007)
• Verborgen gebreken[1] (2009)

Films

List of films in which Maryam Hassouni performed as an actor:^[5]

• Offers (2005) (TV film)
• Blondje (2006) (short film)
• Swink!? (2006) (TV film)
• Kicks (2007)
• Anna (2007) (TV film)
• Dunya & Desie / Dunya & Desie in Marokko (2007)

Awards

• International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress (2006) for her role Laila al Gatawi in Offers

References

1. ^ Actorbio Dunya: Maryam Hassouni; retrieved November 25, 2006
2. ^ Curriculum Vitae Maryam Hassouni, November 21, 2006; retrieved November 22, 2006
3. ^ Awards for "Dunya and Desie"; retrieved November 23, 2006
4. ^ 34th International Emmy Awards Gala celebrates the world's best television programming, November 20, 2006; retrieved November 21, 2006
5. ^ ^{a b} "Maryam Hassouni". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1232663/. Retrieved 2007-05-29. 

External links

• Maryam Hassouni at the Internet Movie Database
• Maryam Hassouni at the website of her agency (Dutch)

Persondata
Name	Hassouni, Maryam
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch actress
Date of birth	September 21, 1985
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death