Mona Wassef
Acting • Born 1942-02-09
Biography
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.
Filmography
75 credits
The Report
Movie • 1986
فلك
The Memory of a Night of Love
Movie • 1973
The World in 2000
Movie • 1972
علا
Al Hayba: The Movie
Movie • 2022
Nahed Omran
Al Hayba: The Documentary
Movie • 2022
Menahi
Movie • 2008
أم مناحي
Just Get Married!
Movie • 2003
Ramzis Mutter
Something Is Burning
Movie • 1993
Om Ramzy
Algae
Movie • 1990
The Sun on a Cloudy Day
Movie • 1985
the Prostitute
Love..For Life
Movie • 1980
أم إيناس
Bikaya suar
Movie • 1973
زنوبة
The Message
Movie • 1976
Hind bint Utba
Al Urjouha
Movie • 1976
Al-Yazerli
Movie • 1974
Hundred Faces for a Single Day
Movie • 1972
The Mexican Hoax
Movie • 1972
زوجة تيسير
The Two Friends
Movie • 1970
The Adorable Thief
Movie • 1970
أبلة سميرة
Shadow of Silence
Movie • 2006
Murder by Sequence
Movie • 1982
ليلى
The Visit
Movie • 2024
Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha
Movie • 1971
Another Face of Love
Movie • 1973
Sea, O', Sea
Movie • 1993
Jungle of Wolves
Movie • 1977
The Adventure
Movie • 1974
The Black Box
TV • 2010
الغريب
TV • 2017
Sa'at El Sifr
TV • 2010
Sert Al-Hob
TV • 2007
Qutil alrbye
TV • 2004
Layl Al Srar
TV • 2004
Sert Al-Hob
TV • 2007
وردة لخريف العمر
TV • 2002
Nights of Al Saliheya
TV • 2004
أمينة
العراب: تحت الحزام
TV • 2016
قمر شام
TV • 2013
Close Your Eyes
TV • 2024
Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
As'ad Al-Warak
TV • 2010
أم نعيم
As'ad AlWarrak
TV • 1975
The Slums
TV • 2009
أم ربيع
Omar
TV • 2012
Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
The Age of Shame
TV • 2009
الحوت
TV • 2008
Small Hearts
TV • 2009
Al Hayba the Comeback
TV
Nahed El-Omran
النصية
TV • 1998
Roxy Nights
TV • 2025
ذي قار- يوم من أيام العرب
TV • 2001
الملكة المتجردة
City Secrets
TV • 2000
أم منصور
Heavenly Space
TV • 2005
عيلة أكابر
TV • 1998
فوزية
Behind the Sun
TV • 2010
أم بدر
The Sun Rises Again
TV • 2005
حكمت / ضيفة شرف
We'll Meet Tomorrow
TV • 2015
والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
Red Lipstick
TV • 2014
أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
Finally
TV • 2023
والدة ياقوت
Al Hayba
TV • 2017
Nahed
Samra
TV • 2016
راوية
The Chief of Merchants' Daughter
TV • 2015
أم راغب
Tahoun Al-Shar
TV • 2012
أم زيدو
The Leader
TV • 2011
العمة
Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi
TV • 2010
سجاح
Holding Back Tears
TV • 2005
زهرية
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
TV • 1981
Juliet
Bab Al-Hara
TV • 2006
أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
Bab Al-Hara
TV • 2006
أم جوزيف / جورجيت
Ahl alrraya
TV • 2008
أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
Deep Down Under
TV • 2025
دلال
The End of a Brave Man
TV • 1994
ريم الشنكل
Diaries of an Ex-Lover
TV • 2017
(ضيفة شرف)
Men Of Honor
TV • 2011
أم نوري
Mawlana
TV • 2026
جورية
Funny Stories Of Abu Dollama
TV • 1993