Actress
As a teenager, Amal was fascinated by the character of Antigone. She renewed contact years later with the heroine of the Greek tragedy: "I played several Antigones under the direction of Nabyl Lahlou. This rebellious and idealistic woman never really left me”, she says. Actress Amal Ayouch was revealed in Hakim Noury's film “A Woman’s Destiny”,
for which she won the Best Performance Award at the Casablanca National Film
Festival in 1998. Today, she has
no less than thirty films and plays to her credit. Being fond of biology, she enrolled at the School of Pharmacy in
Montpellier, France, but never abandoned the idea of finding the pleasure of
comedy: "In 1988, I played in “Bajazet”, my first semi-professional
play. Since then, I have never
stopped moving around”, she says. She remained
eight years in France and met during that period her partner in life and father
of her children. It was "a marriage of love and an immense joy. There is a great respect and a common state of mind between us.", she
adds. Amal Ayouch makes one movie after another. Although she
is a discreet woman, she is exposed to the limelight: "I became a public
figure and everyone used to confide to me. Suddenly, one dilutes one's own story
into something larger. Acting
socialized me and allowed me to break my shell; acting taught
me to live and love better. Theater,
too, matters to her: "The stage is for me the space where one transcends
his or her own self. It is truly
the place of creation for an actor and contact with the public is galvanizing! After watching the theatrical production of “Violenscène” , of
testimonies of single mothers gathered from single
mothers of
the “Solidarité feminine” NGO, of which she is the sponsor, Amal Ayouch
continued to defend their cause in the book “ À hautes voix” (“Out
loud”’), published by Le Fennec publishers. Pushed by
the same commitment, she chose to adapt the novel by Driss Chraïbi, “La
Civilisation, ma Mère! ...“ where she is
the female character in a play that she has performed for more than three years
in many countries.