--- name: "Manal Issa" canonical: "https://film.one/person/manal-issa" fi1m_id: "manal-issa" imdb_id: "nm6997839" tmdb_id: 1498247 wikidata_id: "Q26837226" roles: ["Actor"] born: "9 March 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-03T03:09:38.323069+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Manal Issa ## Identity Manal Issa - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/manal-issa - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** manal-issa - **IMDb ID:** nm6997839 - **TMDB ID:** 1498247 - **Wikidata ID:** Q26837226 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_Issa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26837226, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6997839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498247 Actor. Born 9 March 1992 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 9 March 1992, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - **Also known as:** マナル・イッサ - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_Issa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26837226, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6997839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498247 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Swimmers*](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Manal Issa is a French-Lebanese actress. She was born on 9 March 1992 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to Lebanese parents, and moved with her family to Beirut at the age of three before returning to France for her studies. Issa studied engineering and began her acting career with the lead role of Lina in Danielle Arbid’s *Parisienne* (2015). She has appeared in films including *Nocturama* (2016), *The Sea Ahead* (2021) and *The Swimmers* (2022), in which she played Sarah Mardini alongside her sister Nathalie Issa as Yusra Mardini. In 2017 she was shortlisted for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Swimmers* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Sarah Mardini — [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md) ## Complete filmography (27) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Summer Meadow* (2026), as Hana - *The 4th Wall* (2025), as Imane - *Disorder* (2024), Actor - *Manal Issa, 2024* (2024), Writer, Creative Consultant - *The Listening Tapes* (2024), as Maria Schneider - *2006* (2024), Actor - *Datæterna* (2023), Actor - *Madness* (2023), as Nausica - *Black Box* (2023), as Madonna - *Elektra* (2023), Actor - *The Anger* (2023), as Ida - *The Swimmers* (2022), as Sarah Mardini — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md) - *Maria Schneider, 1983* (2022), as Maria Schneider - *The Sea Ahead* (2022), as Jana - *Memory Box* (2021), as Maia (Young) - *Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)* (2020), as Sabrina (uncredited) - *The Bra* (2019), as Mother with baby - *Father & Sons* (2019), as Laura - *Malek* (2019), as Souad - *Golden Youth* (2019), as Razerka - *Ulysse & Mona* (2018), as Mona - *My Favourite Fabric* (2018), as Nahla - *One of These Days* (2017), Actor - *Nocturama* (2016), as Sabrina - *Parisienne* (2016), as Lina - *Peanuts*, Actor - *Terminal Blues*, as Yara ## Gallery - ![Manal Issa](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-4d3f1b8f5b45.jpg) Manal Issa — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-25_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-25_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-89accbda8400.jpg) Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-22.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-22.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-550e1331093d.jpg) Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-22_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-22_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-ed9947ef125c.jpg) Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-23.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-23.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-72f1fc5184e6.jpg) Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-24.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-24.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4314603/gallery-032da8a4a8ba.jpg) Manal Issa 79th Locarno Film Festival (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-25.jpg/1280px-Manal_Issa_79th_Locarno_Film_Festival_-25.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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