Biyouna Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Baya Bouzar
Algerian nationality
Birth September 13, 1952 (Algiers – Algeria)

BIOGRAPHY
Of Algerian origin, Biyouna is a singer, dancer, presenter and actress. She joined several song and dance troupes very early on, before directing one herself with a friend.

Her sister Leila Djazaria is also passionate about singing and becomes a singer, while her mother sells tickets in a cinema in the city, thus allowing Biyouna to see films, mainly oriental, with Egyptian singers and dancers who give her immediately want to do the same thing.

It was at the age of 17 that she began dancing and singing in important cabarets in Algiers, and at 19 she was already working for the very famous Cabaret Copacabana.

In 1973, while she visited the television studios of an Algerian channel, director Mustapha Badie noticed her and asked her to try out for a role in La grande maison (TV) , a television film written by Mohamed Dib . Biyouna agrees to audition, and manages to convince the whole team with her charm. This first role made her famous, which subsequently allowed her to obtain other more or less important roles for television.

She never left Algerian soil, until the day the director Nadir Moknèche , in 1999, offered her the role of Meriem in Le Harem de Madame Osmane , a dramatic comedy set during the Algiers civil war, including filming takes place in France and Morocco. This project was followed by the feature film Viva Laldjérie , shot in 2003. Biyouna met the French public without forgetting that of her native country, in which she continued to shine in cinema and television. She also did not forget her first passion, singing, with Biyouna recording an album in 2001, Raid Zone , co-written with composer John Bagnolett . The album was a more than reasonable success, and she was also seen participating in the Fellag Opéra d’Casbah show , directed by Jérôme Savary .

In 2007, she reunited with director Nadir Moknèche with Délice Paloma , in which she played the main and original role of Madame Aldjeria, a famous mafia boss. In addition to cinema and television, she began to work on theater sets in 2007, playing the role of Corypheus in the play Electra by Sophocles, with Jane Birkin , and directed by Philippe Calvario . In 2009, she was also seen on stage at the Vingtième theater in the play La Célestine, where the actress plays the eponymous role, before moving on to the cinema on the set of the French comedy Il reste du jambon? where she plays a secondary role, alongside Ramzy Bedia and Anne Depetrini .

The screenwriter and director Radu Mihaileanu entrusted Biyouna, in 2011, with the role of a woman “love striker” in his new dramatic comedy La Source des femmes , where the actress once again played opposite Leïla Bekhti . The film was nominated in several categories at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d’Or and the Jury Prize.

Author: Yoni Nahum