Acting
Dec 31, 1965
Casablanca, Morocco
Amal Ayouch
Acting
Biography
Born in Casablanca in 1966, Amal Ayouch showed interest in acting from an early age, performing on stage at high school. When she was 18, she arrived in Montpellier where she studied to become a pharmacist. While at university, in 1987 she joined a theatre group attached to the French literature department. She began her film career thanks to another pharmacist, Hassan Benjelloun, who gave her an important part in Les Amis d'hier (1998). Soon afterwards, Hakim Noury invited her to star in Destin de Femme together with Rachid El Ouali. Playing a woman who refused to submit to a difficult husband, she contributed to the film's success. In 1999, she agreed to play a woman of loose morals in Ali Zaoua directed by her cousin Nabil Ayouch. Similar roles followed in Farida Belyazid's Casablanca, Casablanca (2002) and Chassan Benjelloun's Les lèvres du silence (2001) and Farida Belyazid's Casablanca, Casablanca (2002). She went on to star in Driss Chouika's Le jeu de l'amour (2006), allowing her to master a difficult role in intimate scenes with Younes Megri.[5] She has also played in other successful films including Les Anges de Satan (2007). She appeared in two films directed by Nabil Lahlou, Les années de l'exil (2001) and Tabite or not Tabite (2004). It was also Lahlou who encouraged her to act on the stage, inviting her to appear in his theatrical productions, including Ophélie n’est pas Morte, Les Tortues, Antigone, and En Attendant Godot.
Feature Films (28)
A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.
Française
The film highlights the suffering of couples when they do not have children, whether because the wife is barren or because of the husband is sterile.
The Silent Lips
this film shows the resistance of Berber villagers in the High Atlas against the representatives of the Moroccan administration in the 1960s.
The Years of Exile
Ali Brahma visits his homeland for the first time in order to attend his father's funeral. This first trip to Morocco coincides with the trial of serial rapist and police commissioner Mohamed Mustapha Tabet. On the flight back to Paris, Ali meets Zakia Malik. Together, they look into the Tabet trial to write a play and a film script.
Tabite or Not Tabite
The story of Aicha, a young girl who disappears one day, and whose father lives a difficult life that gets even worse after her disappearance.
Casablanca, Casablanca
During a reception organized on the occasion of Ghita's 44th anniversary, friends and family members of Said and Ghita will be confronted with unexpected events serious enough to provoke disturbing reactions, starting points of questioning the little material and emotional comforts by which all this little world was surrounded.
The Birthday
A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.
Operation Red Sea
Television & Series (2)
A biopic about the late Moroccan singer Mohamed El Hayani, as the events begin in 1964 during El Hayani's youth, depicting aspects of his personal life when he applied for a test for talents on the Moroccan radio, to continue with later stages in his career until his death in 1996.
