Occupation Stage actor | Parent(s) Hassem Al Joundi | |
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Darina al joundi film and stage actress cannes 2013
Darina Al Joundi is a Lebanese-born French 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.
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- Darina al joundi film and stage actress cannes 2013
- Maa ricardo karam darina al joundi
- Early life
- Career
- Works
- References
Maa ricardo karam darina al joundi
Early life
Darina Al Joundi was born circa 1969. Her father, Hassem Al Joundi, was a Syrian author and politician. She grew up a Muslim family and attended Catholic schools. After she was sent to a psychiatric hospital run by nuns in Jounieh, she decided to emigrate to France.
Career
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. Her performance at the 2012 Festival d'Avignon received good reviews from theatre critics. 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.
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.
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