Kamel El Basha
March 14, 1962 (62 years old) in Jerusalem, Palestine
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.
Known For
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- 2024 · Thank You for Banking with Us! as Uncle
- 2024 · Reasons for Travel as إبراهيم
- 2024 · House of Gods as Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
- 2024 · An Orange from Jaffa as Farouk
- 2023 · Culprits as Youssef
- 2023 · Palestine Islands as
- 2022 · Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me as
- 2022 · Room 207 as
- 2022 · Huda's Salon as Doctor
- 2021 · Into the Dark as
- 2020 · Curfew as
- 2018 · The Reports on Sarah and Saleem as Abu Ibrahim
- 2017 · The Insult as Yasser Abdallah Salameh
- Future · Lion as
- 2015 · Love, Theft and Other Entanglements as
- Future · My Father's Scent as