Lamis Ammar

Lamis Ammar was born in 1992 in Acre

Lamis Ammar was born in Acre in 1992 to a family from Acre and Al-Tira. When she was four, the family moved to Haifa, where she grew up. As a high school student she worked as a clown at an amusement park.

She studied theater and acting at the University of Haifa and earned a bachelor's degree. She first hoped to become a clown and chose acting as the nearest field. During her studies she worked in a children's puppet theater.

She began acting at The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp and performed at festivals in Nazareth, Jaffa, Haifa and Ramallah. In 2016 she played the lead in Sand Storm, which won a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and she was nominated for an Ophir Award. She also appeared in films by Amos Gitai and Najwa Najjar.

Since 2019 she has lived in Berlin and acted at theaters including the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Volksbühne. After she spoke publicly about Palestinian victims in Gaza, she received death threats, and her play planned for November 2023 was postponed to 2024. She speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English and German.