Samira Saraya (born December 15, 1975) is a Palestinian-Israeli film, television and theater actor, filmmaker, poet, rapper and spoken word artist.

Saraya starred in Shira Geffen's 2014 film Self Made as Nadine, alongside Sarah Adler.

The film tracks two simultaneous timelines, following Yasmine (Saraya), a nurse from Jaffa, and the last day in the life of Lena Sadeh (Evgenia Dodina), a world-renowned brain researcher, whose paths cross tragically.

Saraya improvised the scenes in which her character was under police interrogation, a performance for which she reaped high praise from reviewers.

[9] In June 2015, Saraya won the best screenplay award at the Tel Aviv LGBT film festival, TLVFest.

[10] She had previously won the short screenplay competition for Polygraph in the 2017 festival, receiving a grant from Gesher Foundation to produce and shoot the film.

Saraya appeared in several other stage productions at the Acre festival, including Ran Bechor's Hutzbama, which won Best Play.

She was also a part of Tel Aviv's queer political scene in the early 2000s, and one of the organizers of the Queerhana collective, which held non-profit parties for the community, in order to provide marginalized LGBT persons an alternative to the commercial, apolitical lines.

The Queerhana parties and activism were documented in the film Nation Monsters and Super Queers, in which Saraya participated.