Rhym Guisse
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Rhym Guissé is a Los Angeles-based actor, director and screenwriter, focused on crafting stories that empower and celebrate women, Africans, and Muslims from the diaspora.
As an actress Rhym has a decade of experience in film, television and theatre. Her credits include ABC's How to Get Away With Murder and Miller Center for the Arts' production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning play 'Ruined.'
Her directing credits include Directing a promo for HULU in France for the new 'Vanderpump Villa' show. Recently she directed an 8-part social justice series for the NBA, and directed and executive produced a 5-part Nickelodeon series. Rhym was a fellow in the DGA's Commercial Directing Program in 2022. She is currently directing a feature length documentary on racial violence in the South.
Rhym was born in Algeria, to an Algerian mother and Malian father, and lived in the Ivory Coast before moving to Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor's degree in writing from Kutztown University. An apprentice for the United Nations, and for the Philadelphia Tribune, America's oldest African-American newspaper, before shifting her career to film.
Rhym's ultimate goal is to create narrative features with female leads challenging the status quo. Her screenwriting has been a Semifinalist at the Atlanta Film Festival, and a Diverse Voices official Screenplay Selection.
Rhym continues to seek roles that challenge her as an African/Arab, immigrant, woman, and as an artist.
As an actress Rhym has a decade of experience in film, television and theatre. Her credits include ABC's How to Get Away With Murder and Miller Center for the Arts' production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning play 'Ruined.'
Her directing credits include Directing a promo for HULU in France for the new 'Vanderpump Villa' show. Recently she directed an 8-part social justice series for the NBA, and directed and executive produced a 5-part Nickelodeon series. Rhym was a fellow in the DGA's Commercial Directing Program in 2022. She is currently directing a feature length documentary on racial violence in the South.
Rhym was born in Algeria, to an Algerian mother and Malian father, and lived in the Ivory Coast before moving to Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor's degree in writing from Kutztown University. An apprentice for the United Nations, and for the Philadelphia Tribune, America's oldest African-American newspaper, before shifting her career to film.
Rhym's ultimate goal is to create narrative features with female leads challenging the status quo. Her screenwriting has been a Semifinalist at the Atlanta Film Festival, and a Diverse Voices official Screenplay Selection.
Rhym continues to seek roles that challenge her as an African/Arab, immigrant, woman, and as an artist.
