# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muna-wassef
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:28:04.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muna-wassef"
name: "Muna Wassef"
slug: "muna-wassef"
description: "Muna Wassef is a Syrian Kurdish stage, film and television actress. She is also a United Nations Goodwill ambassador. 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. Mona Wassef is most known internationally for starring in Al Hayba with Taim Hasan, streaming on Netflix."
tagline: "Syrian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Muna_Wassef_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             1.877076411960133
  historical:           10.42702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913307/"
    handle:    "nm0913307"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna_Wassef"
    title: "Muna Wassef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81"
    title: "منى واصف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81"
    title: "منى واصف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna_Wassef"
    title: "Muna Wassef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna_Wassef"
    title: "Muna Wassef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mun%C3%A1_W%C4%81sif"
    title: "Muná Wāsif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81"
    title: "منی واصف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouna_Wasef"
    title: "Mouna Wasef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna_Wassef"
    title: "Muna Wassef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81"
    title: "مونا واصف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna_Wassef"
    title: "Muna Wassef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4120052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1934213"
    title: "Mona Wassef"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump