Nora El Koussour

Nora El Koussour
Born	1994 (age 30–31) Veghel, Netherlands
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2016 – present
Awards	Golden Calf for Best Actress 2017 Layla M.

Nora El Koussour (born 1994) is a Dutch actress. She won the Golden Calf for Best Actress award in 2017 for her role in the film Layla M..

Career

She made her film debut in the 2016 film Layla M.. She won the Golden Calf for Best Actress award in 2017 for her role in the film.[1][2] The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated as a finalist.[3]

Nora appeared in the 2019 film, The Promise of Pisa, portraying character Mina Zafar.[4] In 2020, she appeared as Sanaa in the British crime thriller television series Baghdad Central.[2] She also appeared in the Dutch television series Kerstgezel.nl. In 2022, she appeared as Emma Watson in the play Emma Watson - The Play.[5][6]

Awards

• 2017: Golden Calf for Best Actress, Layla M.[1]

Filmography

• 2016: Layla M.
• 2017: Aziza
• 2018: Mocro Maffia
• 2019: The Promise of Pisa
• 2020: Kerstgezel.nl

References

1. "Dit zijn de winnaars van de Gouden Kalveren 2017" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 29 September 2017. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
2. "Gouden Kalf-winnares Nora El Koussour krijgt rol in Britse thriller" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
3. "Layla M. is Nederlandse Oscarinzending". NU.nl (in Dutch). 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
4. Promise of Pisa. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2024-11-18 – via watch.plex.tv.
5. "Theatermaker Caro Derkx is echt heel erg fan van Emma Watson. Ze maakte een voorstelling in háár woorden". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 10 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
6. "Als ik me in Emma Watson verplaats, voel ik me gesterkt'". NRC (in Dutch). 9 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

External links

• Nora El Koussour at IMDb