Biography
Najwa Nimri is a Spanish film and television actress, singer and music composer of Jordanian descent. Begins to be recognized in the film world by the hand of director Daniel Calparsoro in films such as Leap into the void, Passages, Blind or Asphalt. After the success of Abre los ojos by Alejandro Amenábar, comes her first Goya nomination for best leading actress with Los Amantes del circulo Polar by Julio Medem, with whom she repeats in Lucía y el Sexo for which she is also nominated for a Goy...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Red Virgin
2024
as Aurora
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930...
Muñequita linda
2021
as Claudia
After years of hard learning, Estela, a promising young musician, has to face the blinding glare of success.
Muñequita linda
2021
Musician
After years of hard learning, Estela, a promising young musician, has to face the blinding glare of success.
The Tree of Blood
2018
as Macarena
Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of thei...
Quién te cantará
2018
as Lila
Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.
La octava dimensión
2018
as Olga
Mi madre
2018
as Madre
Cuento de verano
2015
Music Director
After four years of living together, Léa dumps Mario. He is going to have to spend the loneliest summer of his life locked up in his Madrid apartment,...
10,000 Nights Nowhere
2013
as Claudia
The story of a son who is afraid of everything. Overwhelmed by his dull life, one day he decides to flee. He starts a journey to nowhere, living other...
The Wine of Summer
2013
as Ana
A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.
Verbo
2011
as Inés
Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake...
Route Irish
2011
as Marisol
A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.
Even the Rain
2011
as Isabel (uncredited)
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privati...
Anything You Want
2010
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself unde...
Inseparable From You
2010
A short movie starring Najwa Nimri addressing the complex world of mental illness and more specifically the bipolar disorder.
Room in Rome
2010
as Edurne
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure th...
Express Oviedo
2007
as Bárbara
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
Mataharis
2007
as Eva
Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these th...
Sexo en el plató
2007
as Herself
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk ab...
Trastorno
2006
as Natalia
Two estranged sisters, once very close as young girls, get pregnant at the same time. After suffering an abortion, one becomes obsessed with the other...
Celia's Lives
2006
as Celia
The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of f...
The Method
2005
as Nieves
Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among...
20 Centimeters
2005
as La Conejo
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as ...
20 Centimeters
2005
Music
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as ...
A+
2004
as Dam
Film difícil de ver y aún más de digerir, "A+" se ha convertido, por méritos propios, en una de las ofertas más innovadoras -a la espera del estreno "...
Secret Agents
2004
as Maria Menendez
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wan...
Utopia
2003
as Ángela
Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to rel...
La reina del bar Canalla
2003
as Linda
The young wife of a millionaire hears some terrible news on the television. There has been a train accident near her house. It’s such a serious accide...
Warriors
2002
Original Music Composer
Kosovo, winter 1999. KFOR forces perform their humanitarian task while trying to maintain a difficult neutrality between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs. A...
Stones
2002
as Leire
The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was n...
Fausto 5.0
2001
as Julia
On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Again...
Sex and Lucía
2001
as Elena
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Before Night Falls
2000
as Fina Zorilla Ochoa
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vili...
Asfalto
2000
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. Th...
Asfalto
2000
Original Music Composer
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. Th...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
1998
as Young Ana
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular l...
9'8m/s²
1998
as Ella
The acceleration experienced by a body falling on behalf of gravity force.
Open Your Eyes
1997
as Nuria
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigur...
Blinded
1997
as Marrubi
Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set ...
Pasajes
1996
as Gabi
In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover a...
Salto al vacío
1995
as Alex
Alex is a young woman who resorts to arms and drug trafficking to support her parents and younger brother in 1990s Basque Country. Alex has her life f...