Hiam Abbass

Born: 1960-11-30

Hiam Abbass (born 30 November 1960), sometimes spelled as Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director. She is known for her roles in films such as The Syrian Bride (2004), Paradise Now (2005), Free Zone (2005), Munich (2005), The Visitor (2007), Lemon Tree (2008), Insyriated (2017), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). She gained prominence for her role as Marcia Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023). She has also acted in the Channel 4 series The Promise (2011), the Lifetime miniseries The Red Tent (2014), the Hulu comedy series Ramy (2019–present), and the Hulu drama series The Old Man (2022).


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as Freysa
Released: 2017-10-04

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a...

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Hellraiser

as Menaker
Released: 2022-09-28

A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware...

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Insidious: The Red Door

as Professor Armagan
Released: 2023-07-05

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert...

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

as Bithia
Released: 2014-12-03

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on...

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Munich

as Marie Claude Hamshari
Released: 2005-12-23

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered...

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The Nativity Story

as Anna
Released: 2006-11-30

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the...

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Lemon Tree

as Selma Zidane
Released: 2008-02-08

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied...

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Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

as Jenane (Voice)
Released: 2006-05-21

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in...

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Carnivores

as Amel, la mère
Released: 2018-03-28

At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and...

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Brother

as Madame Miroun
Released: 2019-07-31

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is...

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The Limits of Control

as Driver
Released: 2009-05-01

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one....

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The Visitor

as Mouna Khalil
Released: 2007-09-07

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple...

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Disengagement

as Hiam
Released: 2007-09-07

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a...

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The Source

as Fatima
Released: 2011-11-02

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to...

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Paradise Now

as Said's mother
Released: 2005-09-07

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

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In Syria

as Oum Yazan
Released: 2017-06-22

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

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The Sense of Wonder

as Dr. Mélanie Ferenza
Released: 2015-12-16

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of...

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Spy(ies)

as Wafa
Released: 2009-01-28

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to...

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Minor Revelations

as uncredited
Released: 2008-04-09

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This...

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I Still Hide to Smoke

as Fatima
Released: 2017-04-26

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an...

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Satin Rouge

as Lilia
Released: 2002-05-16

After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma....

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Miral

as Hidi Husseini
Released: 2010-09-15

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first...

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When the Cat's Away

as Une femme dans la cour
Released: 1996-04-03

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone...

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Conversations with My Gardener

as The gardener's wife
Released: 2007-06-06

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country...

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Amreeka

as Raghda Halaby
Released: 2009-06-17

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian...

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The Swallows of Kabul

as Mussarat (voice)
Released: 2019-09-04

Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the...

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Haifa

as Oum Said
Released: 1995-01-02

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a...

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May in the Summer

as Nadine
Released: 2014-05-07

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and...

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Dégradé

as Eftikhar
Released: 2016-04-27

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is...

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Bread

as uncredited
Released: 2001-04-01

A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family,...

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Bye Bye Tiberias

as Self
Released: 2024-01-12

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of...

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I Am Slave

as Laila
Released: 2010-09-14

Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia,...

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Free Zone

as Leila
Released: 2005-04-18

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off...

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Gaza Mon Amour

as Siham
Released: 2021-06-04

Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at...

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Human Zoo

as Mina
Released: 2009-02-05

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her...

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Persecution

as Marie
Released: 2009-10-17

The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted...

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Rock the Casbah

as Aicha
Released: 2013-09-11

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner...

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The Syrian Bride

as Amal
Released: 2004-11-11

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the...

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Kandisha

as Mona Bendrissi
Released: 2008-12-22

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on...

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A Loving Father

as Salma
Released: 2002-11-13

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his...

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Games of Clouds and Rain

as Blanche
Released: 2013-01-09

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has...

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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

as uncredited
Released: 2012-04-16

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in...

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The Demon Stirs

as Rim
Released: 2005-06-22

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love...

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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

as Self
Released: 2015-03-17

An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring...

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The Feelings Factory

as professeur Sterne
Released: 2008-02-06

A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job...

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De guerre lasse

as Raïssa
Released: 2014-05-07

Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put...

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Foreign Body

as Madame Bertaud
Released: 2016-02-21

In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She...

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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

as Intessar
Released: 2011-10-08

Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He...

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Pomegranates and Myrrh

as Umm Habib
Released: 2009-02-01

A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away...

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The Gate of the Sun

as Um Youness
Released: 2004-05-18

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty...

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The Bag of Flour

as Yasmine
Released: 2012-01-13

Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years...

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Inheritance

as Samira
Released: 2012-12-12

A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of...

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Mateo Falcone

as La madre / Mother
Released: 2008-11-25

Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his...

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Nadia and Sarra

as Nadia
Released: 2004-10-28

Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a...

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Tar Angel

as Naïma Kasmi
Released: 2003-10-08

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to...

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We Need a Vacation

as La mère de Lucien et de José
Released: 2002-01-16

It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the...

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In Vitro

as Dunia
Released: 2019-05-11

Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from...

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Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 2016-04-17

In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution,...

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Everyday Is a Holiday

as Hala
Released: 2010-01-27

It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus...

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Habibti

as Iman
Released: 2010-03-17

A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter...

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Blanche

as La voisine
Released: 2008-01-28

Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the...

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The Wedding Guest

as Jénane (Voice)
Released: 2008-10-14

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A Police Romance

as Faty
Released: 2008-04-15

In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil...

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When Arabs Danced

as Self
Released: 2018-09-06

Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity...

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Peace After Marriage

as Amani
Released: 2013-10-28

Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli...

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Sur les traces de Mélanie

as Madeleine
Released: 2005-06-13

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking...

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Night

as Mother (voice)
Released: 2021-08-04

Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.

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Dawn of the World

as Mastour's mother
Released: 2009-05-27

The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq....

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Sofa So Good

as uncredited
Released: 2020-06-18

In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking...

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Ali, Rabiaa and the Others

as Rabiaa
Released: 2000-09-13

In the 70s, Ali, Rabiaa, Driss, Abdellah and Hamid are a group of friends grow up in a heavy...

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Succession

as Marcia Roy
First aired: 2018-06-03

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father...

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The Old Man

as Abbey Chase
First aired: 2022-06-16

Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin...

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The OA

as Khatun
First aired: 2016-12-16

Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight...

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Ramy

as Maysa Hassan
First aired: 2019-04-19

Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey...

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The Red Tent

as Queen Re-Nefer
First aired: 2014-12-07

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent detour...

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Oussekine

as Aïcha
First aired: 2022-05-11

An examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young...

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The Promise

as Old Jawda
First aired: 2011-02-06

The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about...

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The State

as Umm Salamah
First aired: 2017-08-20

The experiences of four British men and women who leave their lives behind to join ISIS in Syria.

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