Houda Echouafni
Know for: Acting
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Place of birth: Casablanca, Morocco
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National Theatre Live: The Boy With Two Hearts (2021)
When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking...
The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a...
Piercing Brightness (2013)
A young Chinese boy and girl are sent on a mission to retrieve the 'Glorious 100' - agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and...
31 North 62 East (2009)
A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit's position is revealed by the British Prime Minister to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to...
National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: in the words of survivors (2023)
A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Six years on, interviews conducted with a...
Abdullah and Leilah (2018)
Haunted by the memories of his childhood in Baghdad, Abdullah retreats into his deep past. Leilah seeks one last moment of connection with her father...
Mesocafé (2011)
A few weeks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an underground blogger risks his life by travelling from Baghdad to London to campaign for the lifting...
For Neda (2010)
On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest....
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila (2020)
Ben and Yasmine continue further south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits. The ethics of...
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 5: Ismael (2020)
Our protagonists are taken captive aboard a gigantic cargo ship, whose megalomaniacal captain Ismael entertains biblical pretensions. Ben is made to...
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 3: Arturo (2020)
Ben and Yasmine arrive at a strange and enigmatic community based on an island in the lagoon of Venice. They engage in scavenging raids to the...