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Kamel El Basha

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.


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Born:
Mar 14, 1962 In Jerusalem, Palestine
Movie/TV Credits:
14
First Appeared:
In the movie Love, Theft and Other Entanglements 2015-02-06
Latest Project:
Movie Lion 2025
Known For
Poster of House of Gods
Poster of An Orange from Jaffa
Poster of Huda's Salon
Poster of Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Filmography
Movie Lion 2025
Movie My Father's Scent 2025
Movie An Orange from Jaffa Farouk 2024-02-03
Series House of Gods Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi 2024-02-25
Series Reasons for Travel إبراهيم 2024-05-15
Series Culprits Youssef 2023-11-08
Movie Huda's Salon Doctor 2022-03-04
Movie Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me 2022-11-16
Series Room 207 2022-10-31
Series Into the Dark 2021-12-11
Movie Curfew 2020-12-04
Movie The Reports on Sarah and Saleem Abu Ibrahim 2018-03-15
Movie The Insult Yasser Abdallah Salameh 2017-09-14
Movie Love, Theft and Other Entanglements 2015-02-06