Carole Abboud

Carole is a Lebanese cinema and theater female actor. She started an early career on stage with known stage directors from Lebanon and the Arab world such as Roger Assaf, Yacoob Chedrawi, Ezzedin Gannoun, Jawad Al Assadi, and lately with Kuwaiti director Suleyman Al Bassam in Richard III and The 12th night, the first performed worldwide and the second starting an international tour in October 2011. She holds a BA in acting from the Lebanese University and a Masters in Performing Arts from Paris 8 University- France. She is living and working in Beirut-Lebanon.

Carole’s film career started in 1994 with Laila Assaf Tangroth in ‘Frihetsligen’ and ‘Histoire d’un retour’ by Jean Claude Codsi. In 1997, she worked with Lebanese director Ghassan Salhab on two of his films: ‘Beyrouth Fantomes’ and ‘Terra Incognita’ (Official selection Cannes 2002-Un certain regard section), as well as in his film-essay ‘Posthume’ in 2006. Carole’s filmography includes ‘ The silent majority’ by Mahmoud Hojeij (2002), ‘Beirut Museum’ by Bahij Hojeij, ‘Our father…on earth’ by Mounir Maasri, and ‘Tannoura Maxi’ by Joe Bou Eid. Carole participated as an actor and assistant director in Rami Nihawi’s short documentary ‘Revenging for the Astronaut’ (2007), and in short films such as ‘Hawa Beirut’ by Fouad Alaywan (2002), ‘Dans le sang’ by Katia Jarjoura (2009),’+'(2010) and ‘The demolition'(2011) by Selim Mourad.In 2011,she worked with Tobe Hooper on the first Arab horror movie ‘Djinn’.