Yasmine Al Masri Bio - Biography

Name	Yasmine Al Masri
Height
Naionality	Lebanon
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Lebanon
Famous for	Acting

Yasmine Al Massri is an international actress, video artist and dancer born in Lebanon, from a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. She moved to Paris to live and study, graduated from L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris in multimedia and live performance.

Yasmine Al Massri started in the internationally acclaimed[citation needed] and controversial movies Miral, Julian Schnabel film, alongside stars like Vanessa Redgrave, Hiam Abbass, Frieda Pinto, Ruba Bilal, Willem Dafoe, and Alexander Siddig. The film is an adaptation of an autobiography written by Journalist and Novelist Roula Jebreal.

Al Massri's big break as an actress was in the Lebanese award-winning film Caramel directed by Nadine Labaki which received international success following critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival 2007,
a best actress award for the ensemble of actresses at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival, and another nomination for best actress at the Asia Pacific screen award 2007.
After, she was cast in the award-winning and Oscar nominated French short ‘Manon sur le Bitume’ with Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont. In 2008, her next award-winning feature, shot in the Algerian desert ‘Ayrouwen’, directed by Ibrahim Tsaki, enabled her to learn an entirely new language for the role, that of the ‘Touareg’ or the Blue men.