Leila Shenna
Leila Shenna is a former Moroccan actress who featured on film mostly in the 1970s.
Biography
She is most commonly remembered in English speaking countries for her role as a Bond girl in the 1979 film Moonraker as an evil air hostess. However, she also starred in the 1968 film Remparts d'argile directed by Jean-Louis Bertucelli, the 1975 Palme d'Or winner Chronique des années de braise directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, as well as the 1982 Algerian film Vent de sable, also directed by Lakhdar-Hamina. The first two films were set in Algeria, the third simply in the desert. She also had a minor role in the 1977 film March or Die.She is the cousin of Malika Oufkir, the writer of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, an account of the failed 1972 assassination attempt on the King of Morocco by her father, General Mohamed Oufkir.
Filmography
- Win to Live
- Ramparts of Clay – Rima
- Sex-Power – La sirène
- Décembre
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire – La femme
- El Chergui
- Château Espérance – Leila
- March or Die – Arab Street Girl
- Désiré Lafarge
- Moonraker – Hostess Private Jet
- Sandstorm –