Najwa Nimri
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Born | Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea 14 February 1972 Pamplona, Navarre, Spain |
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Years active | 1995–present |
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Formerly of | Najwajean (with Carlos Jean) |
Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (Spanish: [ˈnajwa ˈnimɾjurutikoeˈtʃea]; born 14 February 1972) is a Spanish actress and singer.
Early life[edit]
Nimri's mother is from Pamplona and her father, Karam Nimri, is Jordanian.[1][2] She has a brother named Karim Nimri, a half-brother named Andre Nimri and two half-sisters named Sara and Nadia Nimri. Najwa also has a cousin who is a singer named Alexander Nimier. When she was a child she moved to Bilbao and now lives in Madrid.
Career[edit]
Her first major film role was in Salto al vacío, the first movie by film director Daniel Calparsoro. Her career as a singer started with small groups. In 1996, she formed the band Najwajean with Carlos Jean.[3] She has also released three solo albums. She was married to Daniel Calparsoro.[4]
Several of her film roles won her praise: as Ana in Lovers of the Arctic Circle,[5] and as Elena in Lucía y el sexo.[6] Both films were directed by Julio Medem.[7] She starred next to Eduardo Noriega in Abre los ojos,[8] and El método.[9]
She was nominated to the 33rd edition of Goya Awards for Goya Award for Best Actress for Quién te cantará.[10]
In 2020, she returned as Zulema in the spin off Vis a vis: El Oasis,[11] starring with Maggie Civantos.[12] She played Alicia Sierra, a policewoman inspector in (Money Heist) La casa de papel.[13] She voiced Kate Laswell in the 2019 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.[14]
Discography[edit]
With Carlos Jean as Najwajean[edit]
- No Blood (1998) – No. 80
- Asfalto (2001) (soundtrack) – No. 175
- Guerreros (2002) (soundtrack) – No. 88
- Najwajean Selection (2002) (compilation album) – No. 108
- Till It Breaks (2008) – No. 20
- Bonzo (2015)
Najwajean singles[edit]
- I'm gonna be (1999)
- Garota de Ipanema (1999)
- Crime (2008)
- Waiting (2015)
- Bonzo (2015)
- Drive me (2016)
Solo albums[edit]
- Carefully (2001) – No. 76
- Mayday (2003) – No. 48
- Walkabout (2006) – No. 10 (50,000 copies sold; Gold)
- Donde rugen los volcanes (2012)
- Rat Race (2014)
- Viene de Largo (2020)
- AMA (2021)
Solo singles[edit]
- That Cyclone (2001) from Carefully – No. 37
- Following Dolphins (2001) from Carefully – No. 68
- Go Cain (2003) from Mayday – No. 20
- Hey Boys, Girls (2003) from Mayday – No. 26
- Capable (2006) from Walkabout – No. 3
- Push It (2006) from Walkabout
- Le Tien, Le Mien (2006) from Walkabout
- El último primate (2010) from El Ultimo primate
- Como un animal (2010) from El ultimo primate.
- Donde rugen los volcanes" (2012) from Donde rugen los volcanes
- Somos su nuevo invitado (2012) from Donde rugen los volcanes
- Feed Us (2014) from Rat Race
- Rat race (2014) from Rat Race
- Pijama (2014) from Rat Race
- Lento (2020) from Viene de largo
- Panpan (2020)
- Mira Como Van (2020)
- Santa Claus llego a la cuidad (2020)
- Contra Quien Luchaba (2022)
- Aperol (2022)
- Esquiando (2023)
- Big Bang (2023)
- Chia (2023) ·
Filmography[edit]
Films[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1995 | Salto al vacío | Alex | [15] | |
1996 | Pasajes | Gabi | [16] | |
1997 | Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) | Nuria | [17] | |
A ciegas (Blinded) | Marrubi | [18] | ||
1998 | Los amantes del círculo polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) | Ana | Character also performed by Kristel Díaz and Sara Valiente | [19] |
9'8 m/s² | Ella | [20] | ||
2000 | Asfalto | Lucía | [21] | |
2001 | Fausto 5.0 | Julia | [22] | |
Before Night Falls | Fina Correa | [23] | ||
Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia) | Elena | [24] | ||
2002 | Piedras (Stones) | Leire | [25] | |
2003 | Utopía | Ángela | [26] | |
La reina del bar Canalla | Linda | |||
2004 | A + (Amas) | Dam | ||
Agents secrets (Secret Agents) | Maria Menendez | [27] | ||
2005 | El método (The Method) | Nieves | [28] | |
20 centímetros (20 Centimeters) | La Conejo | [29] | ||
2006 | Trastorno | Natalia | [30] | |
Las vidas de Celia (Celia's Lives) | Celia | [31][32] | ||
2007 | Mataharis | Eva | [33] | |
Oviedo Express | Bárbara | [34] | ||
2010 | Todo lo que tú quieras (Anything You Want) | Marta | [35] | |
Route Irish | Marisol | [36] | ||
Habitación en Roma (Room in Rome) | Edurne | [37] | ||
2011 | Verbo | Inés | [38] | |
2012 | The Wine of Summer | Ana | ||
2013 | 10.000 noches en ninguna parte (10,000 Nights Nowhere) | Claudia | [39] | |
2018 | Quién te cantará | Lila Cassen | [40] | |
El árbol de la sangre (The Tree of Blood) | Macarena | [41] | ||
La octava dimensión | Olga Calderón |
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2015–2019 | Vis a vis | Zulema Zahir | 40 episodes | |
2019–2021 | La casa de papel | Alicia Sierra Montes | 25 episodes | |
2020 | Vis a vis: El Oasis | Zulema Zahir | 8 episodes | |
2021–2022 | Insiders | Host | 14 episodes | |
2022 | Sagrada familia (Holy Family) | Gloria | [42] | |
2023 | Berlin | Alicia Sierra Montes | TBA episodes | |
TBD | 30 monedas | Haruka | Introduced in season 2 | [43] |
Podcast[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Episodes |
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2020 | Vis a vis: Cara B | Zulema Zahir | Voice role, 10 episodes |
Accolades[edit]
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Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | 45th Ondas Awards | Best Actress | Lovers of the Arctic Circle & Open Your Eyes | Won | [44] |
1999 | 13th Goya Awards | Best Actress | Lovers of the Arctic Circle | Nominated | [45] |
2002 | 16th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Sex and Lucia | Nominated | [45] |
2017 | 4th Feroz Awards | Best Leading Actress (TV) | Locked Up | Nominated | [46] |
2019 | 6th Feroz Awards | Best Leading Actress (TV) | Nominated | [47] | |
33rd Goya Awards | Best Actress | Quién te cantará | Nominated | [45] | |
69th Fotogramas de Plata | Best Film Actress | Nominated | [48] | ||
Best TV Actress | Locked Up | Won | [49] | ||
6th Platino Awards | Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Series | Nominated | [50] | ||
2021 | 8th Platino Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Series | Money Heist | Nominated | [51] |
2022 | 72nd Fotogramas de Plata | Best TV Actress | Won | [52] | |
9th Platino Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Series | Won | [53] |
References[edit]
- ^ "Particularísimo de Najwa Nimri". Fotogramas. 14 February 2018.
- ^ Diéguez, Antonio (7 June 2016). "Najwa Nimri: "Mi familia es la única cristiana de Jordania"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Najwa Nimri y Carlos Jean continúa mañana en Vigo la gira gallega de presentación del álbum 'NajwaJean 10 years after'". Europa Press (in Spanish). Viga. 2 April 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ "Calparsoro: Del cine de autor vasco al terror de encargo en USA". Noticine (in Spanish). 8 May 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ "Los mejores papeles de Najwa Nimri, de 'Los amantes del círculo polar' a 'Quién te cantará'". MSN Entertainment. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ EFE (20 August 2001). "Julio Medem presenta en Madrid 'Lucía y el sexo', su película más complicada". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ "Los amantes del Círculo Polar se reencuentran 20 años después". Academia de Cine (in Spanish). 25 September 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ Gómez, Laura (4 February 2014). "Cine de ciencia ficción: Abre los ojos". Hobby Consolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ Repiso, Isabel (20 August 2015). "Un "Método" de éxito". ABC (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ "Najwa Nimri: "No esperaba estar nominada a los Goya"". Europa Press. Madrid. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "'Vis a vis' vuelve con un 'spin off' con Najwa Nimri y Maggie Civantos como protagonistas". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ Europa Press (23 May 2019). "Najwa Nimri y Maggie Civantos protagonizarán el 'spin-off' de 'Vis a Vis'". El Periódico. Grupo Zeta. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ Sanz Ezquerro, David (29 May 2019). "Najwa Nimri, una 'poli mala' en La casa de papel". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ Tiramillas (21 October 2019). "Najwa Nimri dará voz a Kate Laswell en 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'". Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva, S.L.U. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "'Salto al vacío', el debut de Daniel Calparsoro y Najwa Nimri". Diez Minutos. 12 September 2018.
- ^ Darren, Alison (2000). Lesbian Film Guide. p. 161. ISBN 0-304-33376-X.
- ^ Herbert, Daniel (2006). "Sky's the Limit. Transnationality and Identity in Abre los Ojos and Vanilla Sky". Film Quarterly. University of California Press. 60 (1): 31. doi:10.1525/fq.2006.60.1.28.
- ^ Jimeno, Diego (6 September 2019). "'A ciegas', en 'Historia de nuestro cine'". Diez Minutos.
- ^ Martínez Expósito, Alfredo (2004). "Julio Medem y la poética del compromiso". Alpha (20). doi:10.4067/S0718-22012004000200008. ISSN 0718-2201 – via SciELO.
- ^ "9'8 M/S2". Festival Cannes. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ Fernández Santos, Elsa (26 January 2000). "Daniel Calparsoro estrena 'Asfalto', su película "más luminosa y normal"". El País.
- ^ Sánchez, Sergi (29 May 2008). "Fausto 5.0". Fotogramas.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (2004). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 0-7407-3834-8.
- ^ Infante, Ignacio (2008). "Sex and the Luminous Interface: The Digital Vision Machine in Julio Medem's Lucía y el Sexo". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 9 (1): 79. doi:10.1080/14636200701868027. S2CID 142974792.
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- ^ Frini, Roberto (2006). Monica Belucci. Rome: Gremese Editore. p. 92. ISBN 88-8440-441-X.
- ^ Reszka Maciejewski, David (20 April 2020). "Najwa Nimri: 7 papeles increíbles más allá de 'Vis a Vis' y 'La casa de papel'". Los 40.
- ^ Pastor, Custodio (29 April 2005). "Deseos cumplidos: '20 centímetros'". El Mundo.
- ^ "Trastorno". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- ^ Vidal, Nuria (29 May 2008). "Las vidas de Celia". Fotogramas.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (10 October 2006). "Celia's Lives". Variety.
- ^ Costa, Jordi (29 May 2008). "Mataharis". Fotogramas.
- ^ Maldivia, Beatriz (21 January 2008). "'Oviedo Express', otra delirio genial de Gonzalo Suárez". Espinof.
- ^ Massanet, Adrián (10 September 2010). "Estrenos de cine | 10 de septiembre | La cartelera no levanta cabeza". Espinof.
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- ^ Murguía, Salvador; Pinar, Alex, eds. (2018). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 188. ISBN 9781442271333.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (21 November 2021). "Verbo". Variety.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (8 June 2014). "'10,000 Nights Nowhere' ('10000 noches en ninguna parte'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Jimeno, Diego (20 September 2020). "'Quién te cantará', con Najwa Nimri, en 'Versión española'". Diez Minutos.
- ^ Galindo, Alfredo (16 February 2019). "El Árbol de Sangre". Vanguardia.
- ^ "Manolo Caro dirige 'Sagrada familia': "La representación no es una agenda, yo no soy homosexual solo el mes del Orgullo"". Europa Press. 3 October 2022.
- ^ Mogrovejo, Xavi (4 March 2022). "'30 monedas' ofrece un primer vistazo al personaje de Najwa Nimri en la temporada 2". Vandal – via El Español.
- ^ "Najwa Nimri: la razón por la que podría ir al paro tras La casa de papel". Merca2@date=10 March 2021. 10 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "Los actores y actrices con más nominaciones que nunca han ganado un Goya". Fotogramas. 5 March 2021. p. 7.
- ^ "Premios Feroz 2017: Listado completo de ganadores". FormulaTV. 23 January 2017.
- ^ Prats, Marina (19 January 2019). "La lista completa de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2019". HuffPost.
- ^ Custodio, Nerea (5 March 2019). "Ricardo Gómez e Irene Escolar, entre los ganadores de los Premios Fotogramas de Plata 2018". Bekia.
- ^ "Fotogramas de Plata 2018: Najwa Nimri, mejor actriz de televisión". Fotogramas. 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Estos son los ganadores de los Premios Platino 2019". Infobae. 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mejor Interpretación Femenina de reparto en Miniserie o Teleseriedate". Infobae (in Spanish). 3 October 2021.
- ^ "FOTOGRAMAS DE PLATA 2021: NAJWA NIMRI, MEJOR ACTRIZ DE TELEVISIÓN". fotogramas.es. 4 April 2022.
- ^ "'El buen patrón' reina en los Premios Platino del cine iberoamericano". rtve.es. 2 May 2022.
External links[edit]

- Najwa Nimri at IMDb
- Najwa Nimri's website (in Spanish)
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Spanish film actresses
- English-language singers from Spain
- French-language singers
- Spanish people of Jordanian descent
- People from Bilbao
- Actresses from Navarre
- Singers from Navarre
- 20th-century Spanish singers
- 21st-century Spanish singers
- 20th-century Spanish women singers
- 21st-century Spanish women singers
- Spanish television actresses
- 20th-century Spanish actresses
- 21st-century Spanish actresses
- Video game actresses