14 Facts About Leena Alam

Leena Alam is an Afghan film, television, and theater actress.

Leena Alam has appeared in films such as Kabuli Kid, Black Kite, Loori, A Letter to the President and Hassan.

Leena Alam is widely known to have worked on film and TV that speak of child marriage, gender inequality, women's rights and social conflicts.

Leena Alam has been known as "Shereen of Afghanistan" after playing in the taboo-smashing feminist television drama, Shereen, the first of its kind to have been made in Afghanistan, directed by Ghafar Azad and produced by Kaboora and Tolo TV.

Shereen was nominated for Best Mini-Series Drama alongside The Night Manager, Mr Robot and Deutschland 83 and Leena Alam was nominated for Best Actress at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2016.

Leena Alam began her acting and cinema career in 1998.

At the start of her career, Leena Alam modeled and took part in dance competitions.

In 2007, Leena Alam returned to Kabul and appeared with Hadji Gul in Kabuli Kid, a French-Afghan drama produced by Fidelite Films directed by Barmak Akram.

Leena Alam has been a member of the jury at the Negah-e-No Film Festival in 2014 and 2015.

Leena Alam has appeared in music videos for Shafiq Mureed, Arash Barez, and Kerry Coulshed.

In 2021, Leena Alam collaborated with theater artists in the US performing monologues written by playwright Angeline Larmaer.

Leena Alam was named peace ambassador of the UNAMA United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNAMA in 2009.

Forty days after Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman falsely accused of burning a copy of the Quran, was publicly beaten and burnt to death on 19 March 2015, Leena Alam joined activists in Kabul to stage a re-enactment of the killing.

Leena Alam had been among the mourners at Farkhunda's burial, and it was the first real dead body she had ever seen, she said.