Biography
Hiam Abbass (born November 30, 1960), sometimes spelled as Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian and French filmmaker, actress and director who gained prominence for her role as Marcia Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018-2023).
Known For
Complete Filmography

No Beast. So Fierce.
2025
as Mishal
In the aftermath of a bloody gang war, the youngest daughter of the victorious Arab clan begins to plot against the men of her family. She kills broth...

The Last Breath
2025
as Ms. Broquet
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in...

Night
2024
as Mother (voice)
Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.

Bye Bye Tiberias
2024
as Self
In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother...

Insidious: The Red Door
2023
as Professor Armagan
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing ...

Hellraiser
2022
as Menaker
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group o...

Gaza Mon Amour
2021
as Siham
In Gaza, 60-year-old fisherman Issa has been secretly in love with Siham, a widow who works at the market. One day, the discovery of an ancient phalli...

Sofa So Good
2020
In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking for a sofa. This is a funny story with some touching mom...

The Swallows of Kabul
2019
as Mussarat (voice)
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. ...

Brother
2019
as Madame Miroun
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed edu...

In Vitro
2019
as Dunia
Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from different generations discuss memory, exile and nostalgia in...

When Arabs Danced
2018
as Self
Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity in relation to artistic expression and harmful stereoty...

Carnivores
2018
as Amel, la mère
At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and proposals do not arrive. Short of resources, she is fo...

Blade Runner 2049
2017
as Freysa
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 to plunge wh...

In Syria
2017
as Oum Yazan
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

I Still Hide to Smoke
2017
as Fatima
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.

Dégradé
2016
as Eftikhar
A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant ...

Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winning the support of millions of his countrymen. Over...

Foreign Body
2016
as Madame Bertaud
In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She braves hostile seas in the crossing to France, but once the...

The Sense of Wonder
2015
as Dr. Mélanie Ferenza
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that h...
Nothing Escapes My Eyes
2015
as Women
"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud...

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
as Self
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe ...

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Bithia
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 ter...

May in the Summer
2014
as Nadine
A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her pare...

De guerre lasse
2014
as Raïssa
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, A...

Peace After Marriage
2013
as Amani
Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli woman in need of a Green Card, forcing them to re-exa...

Rock the Casbah
2013
as Aicha
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Le Donne della Vucciria
2013
Writer, Director
In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of clothes, mu...

Games of Clouds and Rain
2013
as Blanche
Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. In the wak...

Inheritance
2012
as Samira
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebano...

Inheritance
2012
Director, Writer
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebano...

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
2012
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein o...

The Bag of Flour
2012
as Yasmine
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her...

The Source
2011
as Fatima
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to in...

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
2011
as Intessar
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth...

Miral
2010
as Hidi Husseini
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

I Am Slave
2010
as Laila
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her...

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!
2010
Co-Director
Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and...

Habibti
2010
as Iman
A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only to find her living with a black boyfriend..

Everyday Is a Holiday
2010
as Hala
It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the c...

Persecution
2009
as Marie
A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually insinuating himself i...

Amreeka
2009
as Raghda Halaby
Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- ju...

Dawn of the World
2009
as Mastour's mother
The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly afte...

The Limits of Control
2009
as Driver
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

Human Zoo
2009
as Mina
In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kos...

Pomegranates and Myrrh
2009
as Umm Habib
A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the da...

Spy(ies)
2009
as Wafa
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...

Kandisha
2008
as Mona Bendrissi
Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a ven...

Mateo Falcone
2008
as La madre / Mother
Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parents, Fortunato must deal with a fugitive who asks th...

The Wedding Guest
2008
as Jénane (Voice)

A Police Romance
2008
as Faty
In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer. When an old Algeria...

Minor Revelations
2008
"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is ab...

The Visitor
2008
as Mouna Khalil
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Lemon Tree
2008
as Selma Zidane
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife mov...

The Feelings Factory
2008
as Professor Sterne
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a...

Blanche
2008
as La voisine
Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the first time. Once the couple has left, Chloé falls asl...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
as Self
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Disengagement
2007
as Hiam
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to ...

Conversations with My Gardener
2007
as The gardener's wife
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to ma...

The Nativity Story
2006
as Anna
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua...

Babel
2006
Dialogue Coach
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
2006
as Jenane (voice)
Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close child...

Munich
2005
as Marie Claude Hamshari
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Paradise Now
2005
as Said's Mother
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

The Demon Stirs
2005
as Rim
Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find poten...

Sur les traces de Mélanie
2005
as Madeleine
Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his friend's last walk again. That day, Mélanie had met ...

Free Zone
2005
as Leila
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, a...

The Syrian Bride
2004
as Amal
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, ...

Nadia and Sarra
2004
as Nadia
Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra. For some time, Nadia has problems ...

The Gate of the Sun
2004
as Um Youness
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance...
La Danse Éternelle
2004
Director, Writer
Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes poetry to express the...

Tar Angel
2003
as Naïma Kasmi
Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.

A Loving Father
2002
as Salma
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish ...

Satin Rouge
2002
as Lilia
After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbl...

We Need a Vacation
2002
as La mère de Lucien et de José
It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien a...

Bread
2001
A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.

Bread
2001
Director, Writer
A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.

Ali, Rabiaa and the Others
2000
as Rabiaa
In the 70s, Ali, Rabiaa, Driss, Abdellah and Hamid are a group of friends grow up in a heavy world of drugs, pop, politics ans sex. Rabiaa is a local ...

Living in Paradise
1999
as Aïcha
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants try...

Raddem
1999
A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home she has only ever known in ruins.

When the Cat's Away
1996
as Une femme dans la cour
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, inc...

Haifa
1995
as Oum Said
Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, the...
Le Poisson rouge
1994
as Customer
Love Conquers All
N/A
as Suzanne
Suzanne, a sixty-year-old Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, meets Osmane, a young Black Sudanese migrant without papers, and they fall unexpectedl...
Meursault, contre-enquête
N/A
Love Conquers All
N/A
as Susan
Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love, ...
La petite cuisine de Mehdi
N/A
as Fatima
Palestine 36
N/A
The picture explores the lead-up to and events of the Palestinian Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939. As villages rise-up against British rule, protagonist...
À voix basse
N/A
Back in Tunisia for her uncle's funeral, Lilia reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, particularly her romantic life. Dete...
Atonement
N/A
as Nora
Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of a deadly incident in Baghdad, w...