Background
Carmen Elias Lebbos was born in Beirut. To a working-class modest living family,she had early ambitions to be in show business.
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She has been in several television series including Esma lah and will appear in the leading role this fall in The teacher’s daughter. She also appeared in Ziad Doueiri’s West Beyrouth. and Zozo. At the age of 14, she ran away from home to get married, but later returned to Beirut with her one-year-old baby after she realized it was a mistake and felt trapped in the marriage.
Aged sixteen, she wanted to join the Academy of Arts to study acting, and hoped to meet Ziad Rahbani, from whom she would learn many of her acting techniques.
In one of her rare interviews, in which she accepted to talk about her relationship with Rahbani, Carmen maintained that he was simply the man she once loved, adding that "never, during all the 15 years of being together 24 hours a day, did I regard Ziad in the light other people saw him in. To me he was the man I loved and lived with and drank coffee with every morning.
And that is that.” Her first actual mentor was Yaacoub Chedrawi, who taught her the basics of Theatre. So she attended intensive courses at the Academie des Beaux Arts in 1989, followed by cinematography courses at Oxford in 1990 and the School of Theater and Cinema (Paris) in 2003.
She played with Laura Ramsey a major role in Whatever Lola Wants directed by Nabil Ayouch, where she plays the role of a famous forgotten Egyptian dancer called Ismahan.
Festivals 49eme festival de television de Monte Carlo Dubai International film festival 2008 Damascus film festival in 2008 Egypt film festival in 2005.
Achievements
Membership
She is now a Board Member of Actors Syndicate since 2005. She has Attended many Festivals and was a member of the Jury in:.
