Hayat Kamille

Kamille was born in Baghdad. In 1990 when Kamille was a baby, her family went on holiday to England. Their return flight was cancelled due to the Gulf War so her family had to stay in the country. She grew up in Surrey and went to school there.^[2]

After starting off her career in a couple of short films and commercials Kamille made an appearance in an episode of the American political drama series Tyrant. Her first feature length film was the 2016 documentary Letters from Baghdad. She lent her voice to the 2017 games Assassin's Creed Origins^[3] Her first big role came playing Mariam in the historial drama series Vikings: Valhalla who was the love interest of the lead character Leif Erikson.^[4][5] She had a lead role in the BBC drama series Wild Cherry (TV series) portraying Maryam. She made appearances in the mystery films Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile directed by Kenneth Branagh.^[6] She gained worldwide fame for playing the villainous magician in the horror film Lee Cronin's The Mummy.^[7]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Intel Ultrabook: Egypt	waitress	Short
2013	Layla	Layla	Short
2014	7.2	lackey two	Short
2016	Letters from Baghdad	Jamil Zadeh
2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Susanne
2019	Mosul	Waleed's wife	[8]
2022	Death on the Nile	snake handler
2025	Tea with Friends	Nadia	Short
2026	Lee Cronin's The Mummy	the magician	[9]
2026	Green Light	Farida	Short

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Tyrant	Liberal Woman 3	Episode; A Rock and A Hard Place
2019	Ransom	Rachel Tompkins	Episode; Playing God
2023	Vikings: Valhalla	Mariam	7 episodes[10]
2025	The Good Ship Murder	Layla Mahmood	Episode; Alexandria
2025	Unforgotten	Nahal Dowari	Episode; Episode #6.6
2025	Wild Cherry	Maryam	6 episodes

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Video Games

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Assassin's Creed Origins	Womens voice

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