Makram Khoury
Arab-Israeli actor of Palestinian descent
Makram Jamil Khoury (Arabic: مكرم يعقوب خوري, Hebrew: מכרם חורי; born 30 May 1945) is a Palestinian-Arab actor. He was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel.
Biography
Makram J. Khoury was born into a Palestinian-Christian family, in the al-Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem to his father, who was a judge, and his mother, a teacher. The Khoury family fled to Lebanon during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A year later, they returned to what had become the new State of Israel. The family took up residence in the port city of Acre, near Haifa. Educated there and in the nearby village of Kufr Yasif, Khoury finished high school in 1963. He then entered the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but later dropped out and pursued a career as an actor.
His eldest daughter, Clara Khoury, is also an actress in Israel. She appeared in three films that garnered international attention: Rana's Wedding (2002), The Syrian Bride (she played the daughter of the character played by Makram) (2004) and Lipstikka (2011).
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