Zahira Ben Ammar

Born: None

A Tunisian writer, director and actress, born in Tunis. She contributed to the revival of the theater movement in Tunisia since its beginning in the eighties with the Triangle Theater Troupe, with which she began her career. She worked with major Tunisian directors and established a theater company in 2000 that wrote and directed many plays. She participated in several training courses in the theater. She formed a number of theatrical workshops based on the directives of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation in Tunisia. She won the Best Actress Award in the first edition of the Carthage Theater Days Festival, as well as the Prize for Literature and Arts awarded by the President of the Republic of Tunisia.


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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

as The matron
Released: 1990-09-14

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and...

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The Silences of the Palace

as Habiba
Released: 1994-09-30

The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude....

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Arab

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-02

Directed by Fahdel Jaibi and Fadhel Jaziri.

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The Hotel

as Jaouida
First aired: 2004-10-16

The events of the sitcom take place in an old hotel located in the middle of the ancient Medina...

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Windmill

as Emna Lahmar
First aired: 2014-06-29

A journalist who helps the police in their investigation against Hanen Lahmar, a clinic owner...

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