Background
Clara Khoury was born in Haifa, Israel. She is the daughter of the award-winning actor Makram Khoury.
Clara Khoury was born in Haifa, Israel. She is the daughter of the award-winning actor Makram Khoury.
She studied cinema at the Open University in Tel Aviv and drama at the Beit Zvi acting school.
She works in film, television and theater. Her family is Greek Orthodox. Khoury has worked in a variety of roles on stage including the lead in Antigone by Jean Anouih, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Salome by Oscar Wilde, in Arabic as well as in Hebrew and English.
Her television work includes the series Parashat Hashavua, written by Ari Folman, and Arab Labor written by Sayed Kashua.
She made her big screen debut in 2002 in Rana’s Wedding by Hany Abu-Assad (director of the Oscar-nominated Paradise Now) which premiered at the Semaine Internationale de la Critique at the Cannes Festival. Khoury starred in Lipstikka, a British / Israeli psychological drama by Jonathan Sagall, in competition at the Berlinale 2011.
At the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Midan Arabic in Haifa she starred in Juliano Mer-Khamis"s adaptation of Roman Polanski"s 1994 movie Death and The Maiden after the play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman.