[3][4][5][6] Her father was the Polisario Front co-founder Luchaa Mohamed Lamin, and her native language is Hassaniya Arabic.
[8][6][9] She was discovered and chosen to appear in the film when the filmmaker came across a photograph of her participating in a protest led by the Sahrawi activist Aminetu Haidar.
[7][11] Mohamed won the Best Actress award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2011 for her performance of the lead role of Fatimetu in Wilaya.
[1][2][12] The Moroccan delegation left the room in protest when she was announced as the winner, due to the ongoing Western Sahara conflict.
[14] Mohamed later appeared in the 2015 documentary Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara.