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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 9, 1942
Place of Birth
Damascus, First Syrian Republic [now Syria]
Also Known As
- Muna Wassef
- Mona Wasef
- منى واصف
- السنديانة
- Mona Wassif
Mona Wassef
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
مولانا
2026
0.0
Deep Down Under
as دلال
2025
6.0
Roxy Nights
2025
0.0
Close Your Eyes
as Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
2024
0.0
Finally
as والدة ياقوت
2023
5.0
Al Hayba: The Movie
as Nahed Omran
2022
8.3
Al Hayba: The Documentary
2022
0.0
الغريب
2017
0.0
Al Hayba
as Nahed
2017
6.5
Diaries of an Ex-Lover
as (ضيفة شرف)
2017
0.0
Samra
as راوية
2016
0.0
العراب: تحت الحزام
2016
6.0
We'll Meet Tomorrow
as والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
2015
9.0
The Chief of Merchants' Daughter
as أم راغب
2015
9.0
Red Lipstick
as أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
2014
3.0
قمر شام
2013
0.0
Omar
as Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
2012
8.9
Tahoun Al-Shar
as أم زيدو
2012
0.0
Men Of Honor
as أم نوري
2011
10.0
The Leader
as العمة
2011
8.0
As'ad Al-Warak
as أم نعيم
2010
0.0
Behind the Sun
as أم بدر
2010
0.0
Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi
as سجاح
2010
0.0
The Black Box
2010
0.0
Sa'at El Sifr
2010
0.0
The Slums
as أم ربيع
2009
0.0
Small Hearts
2009
0.0
The Age of Shame
2009
0.0
Menahi
as أم مناحي
2008
0.0
🎬
الحوت
2008
0.0
Ahl alrraya
as أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
2008
0.0
Sert Al-Hob
2007
0.0
Sert Al-Hob
2007
0.0
Bab Al-Hara
as أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
2006
7.9
Bab Al-Hara
as أم جوزيف / جورجيت
2006
7.9
Shadow of Silence
2006
0.0
Holding Back Tears
as زهرية
2005
0.0
The Sun Rises Again
as حكمت / ضيفة شرف
2005
0.0
🎬
Heavenly Space
2005
0.0
Nights of Al Saliheya
as أمينة
2004
6.4
ليل السرار
2004
0.0
Qutil alrbye
2004
0.0
Just Get Married!
as Ramzis Mutter
2003
0.0
وردة لخريف العمر
2002
0.0
ذي قار- يوم من أيام العرب
as الملكة المتجردة
2001
0.0
City Secrets
as أم منصور
2000
8.0
النصية
1998
0.0
The End of a Brave Man
as ريم الشنكل
1994
8.0
Something Is Burning
as Om Ramzy
1993
0.0
Sea, O', Sea
1993
0.0
Algae
1990
0.0
The Report
as فلك
1986
0.0
The Sun on a Cloudy Day
as the Prostitute
1985
0.0
Murder by Sequence
as ليلى
1982
0.0
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
as Juliet
1981
0.0
Love..For Life
as أم إيناس
1980
0.0
Jungle of Wolves
1977
0.0
The Message
as Hind bint Utba
1976
8.7
Al Urjouha
1976
0.0
🎬
As'ad AlWarrak
1975
0.0
Al-Yazerli
1974
6.0
The Adventure
1974
0.0
Another Face of Love
1973
0.0
Bikaya suar
as زنوبة
1973
0.0
The Memory of a Night of Love
1973
0.0
The World in 2000
as علا
1972
0.0
Hundred Faces for a Single Day
1972
5.0
The Mexican Hoax
as زوجة تيسير
1972
0.0
Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha
1971
0.0
The Two Friends
1970
0.0
The Adorable Thief
as أبلة سميرة
1970
6.0
The Visit
1970
7.0
Al Hayba the Comeback
as Nahed El-Omran
N/A
0.0