Actor

Kamel El Basha

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Movies: 18Series: 8Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 1585765

IMDb ID: nm3517807

Known for: Acting

Born: March 14, 1962

Age: 63

Place of birth: Jerusalem, Palestine

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2014 - 2026

Years active: 13

Average TMDB rating: 6.83

Wikidata: Q39279330

Also known as

كامل الباشا • Kamel el-Bacha

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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.