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Leila Shenna

Leila Shenna

Marocco

Leila Shenna (Arabic: ليلى شنّا‎‎; born Morocco) is a Moroccan former actress who featured on film mostly in the 1970s.

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 (initially released in Italy, later released in the United States in 1970 under the title Ramparts of Clay) 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 (and Leila's uncle), General Mohamed Oufkir.

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Filmography
Sandstorm poster
Sandstorm
1982
Moonraker poster
Moonraker
1979 • Hostess Private Jet
March or Die poster
March or Die
1977 • Arab Girl on the Street
Chronicle of the Years of Fire poster
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
1975 • L'Épouse d'Ahmed
The East Wind poster
The East Wind
1975
December poster
December
1973
Ramparts of Clay poster
Ramparts of Clay
1970 • Rima
Sex-Power poster
Sex-Power
1970
Conquer to Live poster
Conquer to Live
1968