Echouafni began filming Penny Woolcock's The Death of Klinghoffer in Malta while she was still at Drama school.
Other roles include Doctors, Waking the Dead and Hotel Babylon, Green Wing Echouafni has Worked with the Royal Court, translating and acting in plays for their international season.
Echouafni was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Moroccan mother and an Egyptian father.
After the loss of her father when she was 3, Echouafni spent her early childhood with her maternal grandparents and attended a French school while her mother finished her studies.
Echouafni was in secondary school when she became interested in drama and the writings of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Shakespeare.