Hiam Abbass

Q: Has Hiam Abbass received any awards?

Hiam Abbass has received several awards, including the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her role in 'The Syrian Bride'.

Q: What was Hiam Abbass's first film?

Hiam Abbass's first film was 'The Wedding', which was released in 1998, marking the beginning of her successful acting career.

Q: What is Hiam Abbass's most successful film?

One of Hiam Abbass's most successful films is 'The Visitor', which received several nominations and won awards, significantly raising her profile in international cinema.

Q: What is Hiam Abbass's background?

Hiam Abbass was born in Nazareth, Israel, and is of Arab descent. She has experienced a diverse cultural background that influences her acting.

Q: What is Hiam Abbass's estimated net worth?

Hiam Abbass's estimated net worth is around $3 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: Has Hiam Abbass worked in television?

Yes, Hiam Abbass has appeared in several television series, including her role in the HBO series 'Succession', where she gained further recognition.

Q: What themes does Hiam Abbass often explore in her films?

Hiam Abbass often explores themes of identity, culture, and the complexities of human relationships in her films, reflecting her personal experiences and background.

Known for

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

IMDb 8 / 10

2017 / Action, Adventure / 156mins

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential...

Succession (2018–)

IMDb 8.9 / 10

2018– / Drama / 60 min

The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment...

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

IMDb 6.0 / 10

2014 / Action, Adventure / 150 min

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its...

Name

Hiam Abbass

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

30 November 1960, Nazareth, Israel

Spouses

Rami Heuberger (2005–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Father: Shlomo Abbass, Mother: name not publicly known

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Only Rebels Win Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, searching for a better future;...	Suzanne	Not rated
2026	Movie Atonement Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of...	Mariam Khachaturian	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2026	Movie In a Whisper Back in Tunisia for her uncle's funeral, Lilia reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris,...	Wahida	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2026	Movie The Arab Haroun is an old bachelor who has lived in Oran for several years. A retired civil servant, he leads a...	Mother	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2025	Movie Spices and Lies Mehdi's life lies on a fragile balance. He plays the role of the perfect Algerian son for his mother Fatima,...	Souhila	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie Palestine 36 Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless...	Hanan	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2025	Movie No Beast. So Fierce. In the aftermath of a bloody gang war, the youngest daughter of the victorious Arab clan begins to plot against...	Mishal	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2025	Movie Before What Comes After In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind...	Ms. Broquet	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2024	Movie Night Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.	Mother (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2024	Movie Bye Bye Tiberias In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in...	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2023	Movie Insidious: The Red Door To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper...	Professor Armagan	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2022	Movie Hellraiser A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to...	Menaker	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2022	TV The Old Man Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries...	Abbey Chase	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	TV Oussekine An examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young student,...	Aïcha	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Gaza Mon Amour In Gaza, 60-year-old fisherman Issa has been secretly in love with Siham, a widow who works at the market. One...	Siham	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie Sofa So Good In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking for a sofa. This is...	Unknown character	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2019	Movie The Swallows of Kabul Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they...	Mussarat (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2019	Movie Brother Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder...	Madame Miroun	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie In Vitro In an underground orchard in Bethlehem, decades after an otherworldly ecodisaster, two scientists discuss exile, loss and nostalgia.	Dunia	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	TV Ramy Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his...	Maysa Hassan	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie When Arabs Danced Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity in relation to artistic expression and harmful...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	TV Succession Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back...	Marcia Roy	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2018	Movie Carnivores At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and proposals do...	Amel, la mère	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Blade Runner 2049 Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret...	Freysa	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	TV The State The experiences of four British men and women who leave their lives behind to join ISIS in Syria.	Umm Salamah	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie In Syria A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.	Oum Yazan	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie I Still Hide to Smoke Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about...	Fatima	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	TV The OA Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for...	Khatun	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie Dégradé A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female...	Eftikhar	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	Movie Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winning the support...	Self - Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2016	Movie Foreign Body In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She braves hostile seas in the crossing...	Madame Bertaud	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2015	Movie The Sense of Wonder Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if...	Dr. Mélanie Ferenza	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie Nothing Escapes My Eyes "Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts...	Women	Not rated
2015	Movie Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew....	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV The Red Tent Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent detour within...	Queen Re-Nefer	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie Exodus: Gods and Kings The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape...	Bithia	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie May in the Summer A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted...	Nadine	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie De guerre lasse Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out...	Raïssa	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2013	Movie Peace After Marriage Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli woman in need of a Green Card,...	Amani	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2013	Movie Rock the Casbah The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.	Aicha	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	Movie Games of Clouds and Rain Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly...	Blanche	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2012	Movie Inheritance A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as...	Samira	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2012	Movie Do Not Forget Me Istanbul Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie The Bag of Flour Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic...	Yasmine	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2012	TV Square	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie The Source A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual...	Fatima	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2011	Movie A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza....	Intessar	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	TV The Promise The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement...	Old Jawda	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2010	Movie Miral A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds...	Hidi Husseini	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2010	Movie I Am Slave Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is...	Laila	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2010	Movie Habibti A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only to find her living...	Iman	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2010	Movie Everyday Is a Holiday It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a...	Hala	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2009	Movie Persecution A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually...	Marie	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2009	Movie Amreeka Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up...	Raghda Halaby	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie Dawn of the World The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where...	Mastour's mother	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Limits of Control A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically...	Driver	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Human Zoo In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria...	Mina	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie Pomegranates and Myrrh A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she...	Umm Habib	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2009	Movie Spy(ies) In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a...	Wafa	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2008	Movie Kandisha Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a...	Mona Bendrissi	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2008	Movie Mateo Falcone Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parents,...	La madre / Mother	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2008	Movie The Wedding Guest	Jénane (Voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie A Police Romance In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer. When...	Faty	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2008	Movie Minor Revelations "The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what...	Unknown character	Not rated
2008	Movie The Visitor A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his...	Mouna Khalil	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	Movie Lemon Tree Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli...	Selma Zidane	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Feelings Factory A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great...	Professor Sterne	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2008	Movie Blanche Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the first time. Once...	La voisine	Not rated
2007	Movie Common Ground: Under Construction Notes The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2007	Movie Disengagement A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin...	Hiam	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2007	Movie Conversations with My Gardener A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in...	The gardener's wife	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Nativity Story Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story....	Anna	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2006	Movie Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the...	Jenane (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2005	Movie Munich During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group...	Marie Claude Hamshari	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie Paradise Now Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.	Said's Mother	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2005	Movie The Demon Stirs Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed,...	Rim	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2005	Movie Free Zone Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement....	Leila	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	Movie Sur les traces de Mélanie Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his friend's last walk again....	Madeleine	Not rated
2004	Movie The Syrian Bride In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged...	Amal	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2004	Movie Nadia and Sarra Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter...	Nadia	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Gate of the Sun Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance....	Um Youness	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	Movie Tar Angel Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.	Naïma Kasmi	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	Movie A Loving Father Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets...	Salma	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	Movie Satin Rouge After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late...	Lilia	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	Movie We Need a Vacation It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the...	La mère de Lucien et de José	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	Movie Bread A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a...	The Mother	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Ali, Rabiaa and the Others In the 70s, Ali, Rabiaa, Driss, Abdellah and Hamid are a group of friends grow up in a heavy world...	Rabiaa	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Living in Paradise Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of...	Aïcha	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1999	Movie Raddem A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Haifa Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp....	Oum Said	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie When the Cat's Away When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris,...	Une femme dans la cour	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1994	Movie The Goldfish A woman with her hands full finds navigating the city streets nearly disastrous for her aquatic pal but for the...	Customer	TMDB 2.0 / 10
1989	Movie La nuit miraculeuse To celebrate the bicentennial of the French revolution, an exposition of mannequins representing the deputies brought together in 1789 to...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Une famille française	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Shelter Leila is a former concert pianist from Aleppo, which bore much of the brunt of the ghastly Syrian Civil War....	Leila	Not rated
TBA	Movie Your Turn, 203 In 2023 Lebanon, Aida and her husband struggle to make ends meet after he has loses his job as a...	Aida	Not rated
TBA	Movie Daughter of Eden In 2006 London, a British-Iraqi nurse's need for answers draws her deep into another family’s life, after a chance encounter...	Maryam	Not rated
TBA	Movie Immortelle	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Occupational Hazards A Palestinian family in Jerusalem contend with the risk of forced displacement.	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	TV Ramy Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	Movie Le Donne della Vucciria In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie Le Donne della Vucciria In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2012	Movie Inheritance A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2012	Movie Inheritance A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2010	Movie On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed...	Co-Director Directing	Not rated
2006	Movie Babel Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.	Dialogue Coach Crew	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie La Danse Éternelle Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes...	Writer Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	Movie La Danse Éternelle Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes...	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie Bread A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Bread A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Gaza is Calling Contrasting the Palestinian Diaspora experience with that of footage shot on location in Jenin Refugee Camp, poet and singer Mustafa's...	Director Directing	Not rated

Atonement

2026 / TMDB 8.0

In a Whisper

2026 / TMDB 7.2

The Arab

2026 / TMDB 3.0

Spices and Lies

2025 / TMDB 7.0

Palestine 36

2025 / TMDB 7.8

No Beast. So Fierce.

2025 / TMDB 8.0

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