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Kamel El Basha
Actor
Born March 14, 1962 (62 years)
Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
Filmography
| 2024 | Dawaay El Safar (TV Series) · as إبراهيم |
| 2024 | House of Gods (TV Series) · as Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi |
| 2024 | An Orange from Jaffa · as Farouk |
| 2023 | Culprits (TV Series) · as Youssef |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | Room 207 (TV Series) |
| 2021 | Into the Dark (TV Series) |
| 2021 | Huda's Salon · as Doctor |
| 2020 | The Translator · as Professor Raed |
| 2020 | |
| 2018 | The Reports on Sarah and Saleem · as Abu Ibrahim |
| 2018 | Rogue Arrows (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2017 | The Insult · as Yasser Abdallah Salameh |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Solomon's Stone · as Police Investigator |