About Samira Saraya
Samira Saraya (Arabic: سميرة سرايا; born December 15, 1975) is a Palestinian-Israeli film, television and theater actor, filmmaker, poet, rapper and spoken word artist. == Biography == === Beginnings === Saraya was born in Haifa, to Nimr and Subahiya Saraya. She is the 11th of their 13 children. At age 19, Saraya moved to Jerusalem to study nursing at the Hebrew University. She began her nursing career at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv in the oncology-hematology ward. After working in several different positions at the hospital, including training positions, she began teaching at the Sheinbein nursing college, and managed a private immunotherapy clinic. === Film and television === Saraya displayed talent and passion for acting from a young age, when she would "put on shows" for her family. But it was only in 1997, in her early twenties, that she got her first real taste of acting, when she participated in an acting workshop in a community center in Lod. The following year, Saraya moved to Tel Aviv and got involved in the fringe performance scene, through which she started performing in various styles, including drag. It was in this context that she discovered her ability to rap and worked the genre into her performances.
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