Muna Wassef | |
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Born | Muna Mustafa Wassef Jelmran 1 February 1942 |
Nationality | Syrian |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1960–present |
Notable work | Hind bint Utbah |
Spouse |
Muhammad Shahin
(m. 1963; died 2004) |
Children | Ammar Abdulhamid |
Awards | The Syrian Order of Civil Merit-Excellent Degree. |
Muna Wassef (also spelled Mona Wasef) (Arabic: منى واصف; born 1 February 1942) is a Syrian stage, film and television actress. She is also a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.[1] She is an icon in the Arab world and the Middle East. Wassef is credited for acting alongside Salah Zulfikar at the prime of her career in Memory of a Night of Love (1973). Wassef had become the highest-paid actress in the Arab World since the end of the 1970s until the year 2000; now she is one of the highest-paid actresses. Wassef is the first Syrian woman to receive the Syrian Order of Civil Merit–Excellent Degree in 2009.[2][3] Mona Wassef is most known internationally for starring in Al Hayba with Taim Hasan, streaming on Netflix. [4]