Kamel El Basha
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 14, 1962 (age 64)
- Birthplace
- Jerusalem, Palestine
Biography
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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Filmography
Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi
Movie
Wedding, Berlin
Movie
Cairo Shadows
Movie
Asad
Movie · as محروس
My Father's Scent
Movie · as Omar
The Land's Oath
Movie · as Narrator
Conversation with the Sea
Movie
Indigenous
TV · as Ibrahim · 15 eps
Thank You for Banking with Us
Movie · as Uncle
Palestine 36
Movie · as Abu Rabab
I'll Get Back to You
Movie · as Abu Bassam
I Know You Can Hear Me
Movie · as Salim
An Orange from Jaffa
Movie · as Farouk
House of Gods
TV · as Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi · 6 eps
Dawa'i El-Safar
TV · as إبراهيم · 10 eps
Palestine Islands
Movie · as Younès
Our Males and Females
Movie · as The Father
Culprits
TV · as Youssef Mizouni / Cracker · 4 eps
Huda's Salon
Movie · as Doctor
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
Movie
Room 207
TV · 10 eps
Mo
TV · as Uncle Ali · 1 ep
The Translator
Movie · as Professor Raed
Into the Dark
TV · 10 eps
Curfew
Movie
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Movie · as Abu Ibrahim
Rogue Arrows
TV · 30 eps
The Insult
Movie · as Yasser Abdallah Salameh
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Movie