Nabyl Lahlou: key obituary facts
Is Nabyl Lahlou dead? Yes. Nabyl Lahlou died on May 7, 2026, at age 81.
Cause of death: Nabyl Lahlou's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Nabyl Lahlou known for?
He was a Moroccan actor and film director.
More about Nabyl Lahlou
Born: 1 January 1945.
Place of birth: Fez.
Place of death: Rabat.
Gender: male.
Occupation: theatre director, author, actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, director.
Nationality: Morocco.
Also known as: Nabyl Lahlou.
Occupations: Theater directorAuthorActor.
Nabyl Lahlou, a Moroccan filmmaker and playwright, died on May 7, 2026.
He was 81. Born in 1945 in Fes, Morocco, Lahlou was also a theater director, author and actor.
He studied theater in Paris at the Académie du Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and L’Ecole Charles Dullin, and later taught at Kordj-el-Kifane in Algeria. He directed his first play, Al-Sa”aa, in Morocco in 1965, later wrote plays in French and Arabic, and was regarded as one of the most influential Moroccan theater directors of the 1980s.