Years active: 1987 - present (started around 13 years old; 37 years in the business)
About Soumaya Akaaboune
Soumaya Akaaboune (Arabic: سومية أكعبون) is a Moroccan actress and former model.
Akaaboune trained in acting at the Loft Studio. In 2010, she starred opposite Matt Damon in the film Green Zone. Akaaboune had roles in the romantic comedy Playing for Keeps in 2012 and the biopic Lovelace in 2013. She was one of the five housewives profiled on the 2013 French show Les Vraies Housewives. Between 2015 and 2016, Akaaboune starred as Fettouma in the popular soap opera Wadii, directed by Yassine Ferhanne. Her character is a bourgeois woman who refuses to accept injustice, and the show received 7 million views per episode. In 2019, she played Marcelle in the TV series The Spy.
Akaaboune met film producer Peter Rodger in 1999. The pair subsequently married and had a son, Jazz. Akaaboune was the stepmother of Elliot Rodger, the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings. The two had a strained relationship, and Elliot Rodger had also planned to murder Akaaboune. She returned to Morocco at the end of 2014. Akaaboune speaks French, Arabic, English, and Spanish.
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