Dina Najjar
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Dina Najjar is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. She is a first-generation Arab American (Palestinian/Jordanian) born in Detroit to immigrant parents. She speaks fluent Arabic, belly dances, and proudly represents her culture. Dina is your real-life Princess Jasmine with an edge.
Some of the roles she's proudest of include: playing Maya, a Syrian refugee searching for her place in America, in the short film "Maya" which earned her the Best Actress Award at the 2018 University of Miami Canes Film Festival; recurring as alluring assassin Nadja Shah in season 2 of "The Family Business" on BET and Netflix (debuted in the top 10); playing Dr. Dulce, a pediatric dentist who loves talking about teeth in Nickelodeon's Noggin Knows; and leading the feature film, "The Refugee", for which she won Best Actress at the 2024 Golden Door International Film Festival and is now streaming on Prime Video and featured on Variety.
Her mission as an artist is to bring diversity without stereotypes to the screen and stage and to tell important stories that inspire, empower, and include while always leaving the viewer with a sense of hope. She strives to portray and write interesting and multifaceted female characters who overcome adversity and trauma while infusing it with humor. And most importantly, her goal is to give a voice to Palestinian and Arab stories that humanize them instead of capitalize on their trauma.
Some of the roles she's proudest of include: playing Maya, a Syrian refugee searching for her place in America, in the short film "Maya" which earned her the Best Actress Award at the 2018 University of Miami Canes Film Festival; recurring as alluring assassin Nadja Shah in season 2 of "The Family Business" on BET and Netflix (debuted in the top 10); playing Dr. Dulce, a pediatric dentist who loves talking about teeth in Nickelodeon's Noggin Knows; and leading the feature film, "The Refugee", for which she won Best Actress at the 2024 Golden Door International Film Festival and is now streaming on Prime Video and featured on Variety.
Her mission as an artist is to bring diversity without stereotypes to the screen and stage and to tell important stories that inspire, empower, and include while always leaving the viewer with a sense of hope. She strives to portray and write interesting and multifaceted female characters who overcome adversity and trauma while infusing it with humor. And most importantly, her goal is to give a voice to Palestinian and Arab stories that humanize them instead of capitalize on their trauma.
Actress
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