Kamel El Basha
ActingAlso Known As
كامل الباشا, Kamel el-Bacha
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.
Movies
(18 total)
The Insult
as Yasser Abdallah Salameh
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
as Abu Ibrahim
Palestine 36
as Abu Rabab
Huda's Salon
as Doctor
The Translator
as Professor Raed
An Orange from Jaffa
as Farouk
Our Males and Females
as The Father
Palestine Islands
as Younès
My Father's Scent
as Omar
I Know You Can Hear Me
as Salim
Asad
as Mahrous
I'll Get Back to You
as Abu Bassam
The Land's Oath
as Narrator
TV Shows
(8 total)
Mo
as Uncle Ali
Culprits
as Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
House of Gods
as Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
Reasons for Travel
as إبراهيم
