
Mona Wassef
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.
Known For
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- 2025 · Roxy Nights as
- 2025 · Deep Down Under as دلال
- 2024 · Close Your Eyes as Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
- 2023 · Finally as والدة ياقوت
- 2022 · Al Hayba: The Movie as Nahed Omran
- 2022 · Al Hayba: The Documentary as
- 2017 · الغريب as
- 2017 · Al Hayba as Nahed
- 2017 · Diaries of an Ex-Lover as (ضيفة شرف)
- 2016 · Samra as راوية
- 2016 · العراب: تحت الحزام as
- 2015 · We'll Meet Tomorrow as والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
- 2015 · The Chief of Merchants' Daughter as أم راغب
- 2014 · Red Lipstick as أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
- 2013 · قمر شام as
- 2012 · Omar as Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
- 2012 · Tahoun Al-Shar as أم زيدو
- 2011 · The Leader as العمة
- 2010 · Behind the Sun as أم بدر
- 2010 · As'ad Al-Warak as أم نعيم
- 2010 · Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi as سجاح
- 2010 · The Black Box as
- 2010 · Sa'at El Sifr as
- 2009 · The Age of Shame as
- 2009 · The Slums as أم ربيع
- 2009 · Small Hearts as
- 2008 · Menahi as أم مناحي
- 2008 · الحوت as
- 2008 · Ahl alrraya as أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
- 2007 · Sert Al-Hob as
- 2007 · Sert Al-Hob as
- 2006 · Bab Al-Hara as أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
- 2006 · Bab Al-Hara as أم جوزيف / جورجيت
- 2006 · Shadow of Silence as
- 2005 · The Sun Rises Again as حكمت / ضيفة شرف
- 2005 · Heavenly Space as
- 2005 · Holding Back Tears as زهرية
- 2004 · Nights of Al Saliheya as أمينة
- 2004 · ليل السرار as
- 2004 · Qutil alrbye as
- 2003 · Just Get Married! as Ramzis Mutter
- 2002 · وردة لخريف العمر as
- 2001 · ذي قار- يوم من أيام العرب as الملكة المتجردة
- 2000 · City Secrets as أم منصور
- 1998 · النصية as
- 1994 · The End of a Brave Man as ريم الشنكل
- 1993 · Sea, O', Sea as
- 1993 · Something Is Burning as Om Ramzy
- 1990 · Algae as
- 1986 · The Report as فلك
- 1985 · The Sun on a Cloudy Day as the Prostitute
- 1982 · Murder by Sequence as ليلى
- 1981 · Izz ad-Din al-Qassam as Juliet
- 1980 · Love..For Life as أم إيناس
- 1977 · Jungle of Wolves as
- 1976 · The Message as Hind bint Utba
- 1976 · Al Urjouha as
- 1974 · Al-Yazerli as
- 1974 · The Adventure as
- 1973 · Another Face of Love as
- 1973 · Bikaya suar as زنوبة
- 1973 · The Memory of a Night of Love as
- 1972 · The World in 2000 as علا
- 1972 · The Mexican Hoax as زوجة تيسير
- 1971 · Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha as
- 1970 · The Two Friends as
- 1970 · The Adorable Thief as أبلة سميرة
- Future · Al Hayba the Comeback as Nahed El-Omran
- 1975 · As'ad AlWarrak as
- 1972 · Hundred Faces for a Single Day as
- 1970 · The Visit as