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Souheila Yacoub is a Swiss actress who portrays the character of Shishakli in the 2024 film Dune: Part Two.
General overview[]
Yacoub was born in Geneva to a Tunisian father and a Flemish mother.[1] Yacoub attended La Haute école fédérale de sport de Macolin and joined the Swiss National Rhythmic Gymnastics Team as a teenager, competing in the 2009 and 2010 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. She left school at 16 to focus on gymnastics. When the team did not qualify for the Olympics, Yacoub quit the sport altogether. Although she did not officially testify against the coaches amid the 2021 abuse allegations, she supported her former teammates' claims and told a number of stories of the coaches' behaviour, such as limiting how much members could eat or drink and benching them for putting on a kilo.[2] Yacoub made her television debut in six episodes of the France 3 soap opera Plus belle la vie. Upon graduating from the Cours Florent, Yacoub landed her first major theatre role on the Paris stage as Wahida in Wajdi Mouawad's play Tous des oiseaux at Théâtre national de la Colline. She then starred in Gaspar Noé's 2018 horror film Climax and the 2019 Canal+ miniseries Savages.In 2020, Yacoub appeared in the multilingual internationally co-produced war drama series No Man's Land.[3]
Yacoub also starred in Philippe Garrel's black and white film The Salt of Tears, which premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as The Braves and A Brighter Tomorrow in 2021.[4] In July 2022, Yacoub joined the cast as Shishakli.[5]
External links[]
Souheila Yacoub on the Internet Movie Database
Souheila Yacoub on Wikipedia
Souheila Yacoub on Instagram
References[]
- ↑ Quand j’aime, je ne réfléchis pas - 20 minutes
- ↑ Souheila Yacoub, «Sans la gym, je serais une actrice différente» - Paris Match
- ↑ 'No Man's Land': Meet Felix Moati, Souheila Yacoub and rest of the cast of Hulu's Syrian Civil War series - Meaww
- ↑ Soufiane Guerrab and Souheila Yacoub in the cast of A Brighter Tomorrow - Cine Europa
- ↑ ‘Dune Part Two’: Souheila Yacoub Latest To Join Legendary Sequel - Deadline