Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor on screen and stage, theater director, play-write, 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. He is currently starring as “Youssef” in the upcoming Disney UK original series CULPRITS. Other notable TV credits are Egyptian Series Room 207 and the Khareg El Saytara. Outside of TV, he has a handful of films including HAMZA, Curfew, Our Males and Females, that gained critical acclaim, nominations, and awards among the Festival Circuit including “The Cairo International Film Festival”, and the Oscar-qualifying “Regard International Short Film Festival”.