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Mona Wassef
Damascus, First Syrian Republic [now Syria]
Mona Wassef is a Syrian film and theatre actress who was born in Damascus in 1942. She is considered an icon in Arab cinema and a role model for many artists and has earned numero…
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Mona Wassef is a Syrian film and theatre actress who was born in Damascus in 1942. She is considered an icon in Arab cinema and a role model for many artists and has earned numerous nicknames including, “The First Star of Syria,” “Star of the Arab World,” and “Lady of the Syrian Screen.” Wassef's most famous early role was as Hind in the 1976 film “Al Ressala” (The Message) about the life of the prophet Mohammed. She has played the role of Bassam Kousa’s mother more than ten times in cinema and on television. In 2009, Wassef became the first Syrian woman to receive the Syrian Order of Merit-Excellent Degree. She has starred in more than 25 plays and 30 films, has appeared in nearly 200 television series and has received multiple life achievement awards from the Damascus Film Festival, Alexandria Film Festival and the International Arab Film Festival in Oran. She was married to the late director Mohammed Shaheen and they have one son, Ammar.
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2026
Mawlana
TV show جورية
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2025
Deep Down Under
TV show دلال
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2025
Roxy Nights
TV show
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2024
The Visit
Movie
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2024
Close Your Eyes
TV show Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
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2023
Finally
TV show والدة ياقوت
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2022
Al Hayba: The Movie
Movie Nahed Omran
- 2022
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2017
Al-Gharib
TV show
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2017
Al Hayba
TV show Nahed
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2017
Diaries of an Ex-Lover
TV show (ضيفة شرف)
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2016
Samra
TV show راوية
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2016
Al-Arrab 2: Taht Al-Hizam
TV show
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2015
We'll Meet Tomorrow
TV show والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
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2015
The Chief of Merchants' Daughter
TV show أم راغب
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2015
Special Relationships
TV show Um Taim
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2014
Tawq Al banat
TV show
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2014
Red Lipstick
TV show أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
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2013
Qamar Sham
TV show
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2012
Bait Amer
TV show
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2012
Omar
TV show Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
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2012
Tahoun Al-Shar
TV show أم زيدو
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2011
Rijal Al-Izz
TV show أم نوري
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2011
The Leader
TV show العمة
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2010
As'ad AlWarrak
TV show أم نعيم
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2010
Behind the Sun
TV show أم بدر
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2010
Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi
TV show سجاح
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2010
The Black Box
TV show
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2010
Sa'at El Sifr
TV show
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2009
Small Hearts
TV show
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2009
The Age of Shame
TV show
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2009
The Slums
TV show أم ربيع
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2008
Menahi
Movie أم مناحي
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2008
Al-Hout
TV show
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2008
Grandpa's house
TV show
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2008
Ahl Alraya
TV show أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
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2007
Sert Al-Hob
TV show
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2007
سيرة الحب
TV show
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2006
Bab Al-Hara
TV show أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
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2006
Small Project
TV show
