Najwa Nimri

Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (Pamplona, February 14, 1972), known as Najwa Nimri (pronounced "Na-yua"), is a Spanish actress and singer. of paternal Jordanian descent.

Biography

Had a Jordanian father and a Basque mother, as a child she moved to Santuchu (Bilbao) and currently lives in Madrid.

She was married to the film director Daniel Calparsoro, whom she met during the filming of the film Salto al vacuum, between 1995 and 2000. In 2004, her first and only child was born, Teo Nabil, whose father's identity has been kept hidden.

Career

She became known as an actress thanks to her role in Salto al vacuum, the first film by Barcelona filmmaker Daniel Calparsoro. As for her musical career, before her first foray into the screen, Najwa Nimri sang as part of the choir of Respect (soul music) and Clan Club (jazz) and later formed, along with Carlos Jean, the Najwajean group. With this formation he released No Blood (1998), Selection (2002), Ten Years After (2007) and Till It Breaks (2008), in addition to the soundtracks of Asfalto, Guerreros and 20 centimeters. The album No Blood includes the well-known single Dead for you which is the theme song for the Spanish film program Versión Española on Spanish Television. She alone published Carefully (2001), Mayday (2003) and Walkabout (2006) with their respective special editions.

In 2010, her first solo album in Spanish was released, titled The Last Primate, which was produced by Alfonso Pérez, Najwa herself and the collaboration of Raúl Santos. In 2012 she published a new solo studio album, an album under the name Where the volcanoes roar where she again featured the participation of Raúl Santos, and in which the singer takes up the sounds in the style minimalist electronic and acoustic past. All the songs on the album were sung in Spanish. At the end of April of that same year, Najwa released the video for Donde roaren los volcanes, the first single from the album, shot on the island of Lanzarote, under the direction of Virgili Jubero. In 2014 she published her latest work, titled Rat Race. The album consists of ten danceable electronic music pieces, created together with Matías Eisen and Didi Gutman (Brazilian Girls).

Although she had studied acting, Najwa had only worked in a short film by Santiago Segura. It was when director Daniel Calparsoro asked her to make a Jump into the Void, the name of the film she would play alongside him. She continued her film career with Alejandro Amenábar, who joined her with Penélope Cruz and Eduardo Noriega in Abre los ojos, in the same role that Cameron Díaz would later play in the American version. This was followed by work as an actress in A Blind again with Daniel Calparsoro; The Lovers of the Polar Circle, Lucia and Sex and Room in Rome by Julio Medem; The method of Marcelo Piñeyro; Mataharis and Also the rain both by Icíar Bollaín; and Verb by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson.

In February 2014, she was on the cover of the Interviú magazine. Also that year she reunited with Carlos Jean in June to offer a concert on Music Day in Matadero Madrid and They decided to tour Najwajean, which began in 2015. In 2015 she debuted on television playing Zulema Zahir, the main antagonist of the prison genre series Vis a vis, produced by Globomedia for Antena 3, in its first two seasons, and for FOX Spain, in its last two. In 2017 he took to the theater stage with the musical about vampires Drac Pack.

In 2018 she starred in Who will sing you, directed by Carlos Vermut, for which she was nominated for a Goya Award in the category of best female lead performance and repeated with Julio Medem in El tree of blood. In 2019 she joined the cast of the successful Netflix series La casa de papel, in which she plays inspector Alicia Sierra, starting in the third season. part, repeating her role in the fourth and fifth parts. Her participation was also announced, along with Maggie Civantos, in Vis a vis: El Oasis, spin-off from Vis a vis, which premiered on FOX Spain in April 2020. In 2021, Netflix announced the actress as host of the platform's original program Insiders i>.

During the summer of 2023, Prime Video announced that she would star in the feature film Hildegart, directed by Paula Ortiz around the life of Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, playing Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Theatre

• Antigone by Jean Anouilh (2013), directed by Rubén Ochandiano.
• Drac Pack (2015-2016), musical show written by Najwa Nimri.

Discography

With Carlos Jean in the Najwajean group

• 1998: No blood
• 2000: Asphalt (BSO)
• 2002: Selection
• 2002: Warriors (BSO)
• 2007: 10 Years After
• 2008: Till it breaks
• 2015: Bonzo

Solo

• 2001: Carefully
• 2003: Mayday
• 2006: Walkabout
• 2010: The last primate
• 2012: Where the volcanoes roar
• 2014: Rat Race
• 2020: It comes from long
• 2021: Ama

Compilations

• 2020: Hey boys, girls. Final collection

Advertising

• Announcement of ONCE (1999)
• Campaign of the 75 years of RENFE (2016)
• Announcement Euskaltel (2016)
• Advertisement channel television Ten (2016)
• Advertisement perfume Adolfo Domínguez ÚNICA (2017)
• Picture of Desigual (AW19 collection with capsule pieces designed by Mr. Christian Lacroix)
• Advertising for Chanel (Festival de Málaga, 2018)
• Short film for Audi, The eighth dimension, led by Kike Maíllo (2018)

Awards and nominations