Carmen Lebbos

Carmen Lebbos
Born	Carmen Elias Lebbos Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	Lebanese
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979-
Parent(s)	Elias and Aida Lebbos

Carmen Lebbos (Arabic: كارمن لبّس‎‎) is a Lebanese actress who has been working in film, television and the theater since 1981. She has been in several television series including Esma lah. She also appeared in Ziad Doueiri’s West Beyrouth and Zozo.

Carmen Elias Lebbos was born in Beirut; to a working-class family. Lebbos was involved in a 15-year romantic relationship with Ziad Rahbani (after his separation and divorce from his estranged ex-wife Dalal Karam) but Lebbos broke it off after realizing Rahabani couldn't provide her with the stability she wanted. 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. At the end of the 1980s, she travelled to Paris to deepen her knowledge but found it impossible to live there with her son. 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 is now a Board Member of Actors Syndicate since 2005. 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.

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