MONA WASSEF

Mona Wassef
Mona Wassef
Gender: Female
Known for: Acting
Birthday: February 9, 1942
Place of Birth: Damascus, First Syrian Republic [now Syria]

Biography

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.

Notable work

Filmography

Starring

دلال
2023·
Finally
والدة ياقوت
(ضيفة شرف)
والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
Nahed El-Omran
Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
Nahed Omran
2017·
Al Hayba
Nahed
2016·
Samra
راوية
أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
أم زيدو
2012·
Omar
Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
العمة
أم بدر
أم نعيم
2009·
The Slums
أم ربيع
أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
2008·
Menahi
أم مناحي
أم جوزيف / جورجيت, أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
زهرية
حكمت / ضيفة شرف
أمينة
Ramzis Mutter
الملكة المتجردة
أم منصور
ريم الشنكل
Om Ramzy
1990·
Algae
فلك
the Prostitute
ليلى
أم إيناس
Hind bint Utba
زنوبة
زوجة تيسير
أبلة سميرة