Biography
Hiam Abbass is a Palestinian actress and film director with Israeli and French citizenship. She was born on 30 November 1960 in Nazareth, Israel, and raised in Deir Hanna. She began acting in the 1980s with the Palestinian National Theatre El Hakawati in East Jerusalem and later studied photography before moving to Paris in the late 1980s.
Abbass is known for film roles including Marie Claude Hamshari in Munich (2005), Mouna Khalil in The Visitor (2008), Freysa in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Professor Armagan in Insidious: The Red Door (2023). On television she played Marcia Roy in the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination, as well as appearances in The OA (2016) and The Old Man (2022). She has also directed feature films and shorts.
She was formerly married to actor Zinedine Soualem; their daughters are actress Mouna Soualem and director Lina Soualem.
