Najwa Nimri

Acting · Born 1972-02-14 in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

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 Goya in the best supporting actress category.

Filmography

• Lovers of the Arctic Circle as Young Ana
• Open Your Eyes as Nuria
• Even the Rain as Isabel (uncredited)
• Sex and Lucía as Elena
• The Method as Nieves
• Before Night Falls as Fina Zorilla Ochoa
• La reina del bar Canalla as Linda
• Stones as Leire
• Utopia as Ángela
• Room in Rome as Edurne

TV

• Locked Up as Zulema Zahir
• Breathless as Patricia Segura
• Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin as Self
• Money Heist as Alicia Sierra
• Locked Up: The Oasis as Zulema Zahir
• Insiders as Self - Host
• 30 Coins as Haruka
• Holy Family as Gloria Román / Julia Santos
• Berlin as Alicia Sierra
• La resistencia as Invitada