Darina Al Joundi | |
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 Al-Joundi in 2010 | |
| Occupation | Stage actor |
| Parent | Hassem Al Joundi |
Darina Al Joundi is a Lebanese-born stage actor. She became a French citizen after Prime Minister Manuel Valls read a review of her performance at the 2012 Avignon Festival and decided to speed up her application. She has promoted women's rights for the French government.
Darina Al Joundi was born circa 1969. [1] Her father, Hassem Al Joundi, was a Syrian author and politician. [2] She grew up in a Muslim family and attended Catholic schools. [1] After she was sent to a psychiatric hospital run by nuns in Jounieh, [1] she decided to emigrate to France. [1]
Al Joundi became an actress in France. She co-wrote Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter, a one-woman show about her struggle to obtain French citizenship, with Algerian playwright Mohamed Kacimi. [3] Her performance at the 2012 Festival d'Avignon received good reviews from theatre critics. [1] After Prime Minister Manuel Valls read an article about her in Le Monde in 2012, he decided to speed up her application for French citizenship. [2] [4]
On September 27, 2012, Al Joundi was invited to speak at the French Ministry of Women's Rights by Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem alongside the editor-in-chief of Marie-Claire, Catherine Durand. [5] [6]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Gate of Sun | Ghost lady | Yousry Nasrallah | |
| 2007 | A Lost Man | Najla Saleh | Danielle Arbid | |
| 2015 | Homeland | Mrs. Youssef | John David Coles | Episode: "Why is This Night Different?" |
| 2016 | Tyrant | Liberal woman | Deborah Chow | Episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place" |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs | Raha Azim | Matthew Weiner | Episode: "The Violet Hour" |
| 2018 | Slam | Rana Nasser | Partho Sen-Gupta | |
| 2021 | Copilot | Suleima | Anne Zohra Berrached |
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