Leila Shenna

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Leila Shenna (Arabic: ليلى شنّا‎‎; born Morocco) is a Moroccan former actress who featured on film mostly in the 1970s. She is most commonly remembered in English speaking countries for her role as a Bond girl in the 1979 film Moonraker as an evil air hostess. However, she also starred in the 1968 film Remparts d'argile (initially released in Italy, later released in the United States in 1970 under the title Ramparts of Clay) directed by Jean-Louis Bertucelli, the 1975 Palme D'or winner Chronique des années de braise directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, as well as the 1982 Algerian film Vent de sable, also directed by Lakhdar-Hamina. The first two films were set in Algeria, the third simply in the desert. She also had a minor role in the 1977 film March or Die. She is the cousin of Malika Oufkir, the writer of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail, an account of the failed 1972 assassination attempt on the King of Morocco by her father (and Leila's uncle), General Mohamed Oufkir. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leila Shenna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Moonraker

as Hostess Private Jet
Released: 1979-06-26

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned...

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March or Die

as Arab Girl on the Street
Released: 1977-09-08

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign...

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Château Espérance

as Leila
Released: 1976-05-17

Rachid, a North African immigrant worker in the Fayard company for several years, saved to bring...

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Chronicle of the Years of Fire

as L'Épouse d'Ahmed
Released: 1975-11-26

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the...

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Sex Power

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-17

A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up...

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Sandstorm

as uncredited
Released: 1982-04-04

Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a...

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The East Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-01

Set in the mid-1950s when Tangier was still an international zone, El Chergui presents the city...

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December

as uncredited
Released: 1973-01-02

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested...

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Ramparts of Clay

as Rima
Released: 1970-11-11

In an Algerian village, the workers of a salt mine go on strike because of low wages. The owner...

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Conquer to Live

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-02

Karim decides one day to leave his village in the Rif and to venture into the big city of...

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