Yasmine Al Massri
Actress. Human Rights Advocate.
Thank you for allowing me to share with you who I am as an Artist and as a Human being.
Yasmine Al Massri
Actress, Human Rights Advocate
A graduate of the prestigious L’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, Al Massri was born in Lebanon to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. Her breakthrough debut in 2007’s Caramel, written and directed by Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, would emerge one of the favorite films of the Cannes Film Festival, eventually becoming the most successful Arabic-language film in history and winning Al Massri and her co- stars a joint best actress award at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival. In 2010, Al Massri starred in Julian Schnabel’s internationally acclaimed Miralalongside Vanessa Redgrave, Hiam Abbas, Frieda Pinto and Willem Dafoe. More recently, she was a series regular on NBC’s Crossbones(opposite John Malkovich) and ABC’s Quantico.
Advocacy
Quantico Star Yasmine Al Massri Grew Up a Palestinian Refugee—Now She’s Helping Refugees All Around the Globe
August 18, 2016
United Nation's World Humanitarian Day 2016
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"It means a lot to me to play Nimah and Raina on TV because there is a big misrepresentation of what the Arab culture is about. Cleopatra, Ashtar, Zenobia: The most beautiful women in history come from this part of the world, and those women were strong, they were leaders of empires, and they had an amazing sense of sophistication.
Oxfam International
The ‘I Hear You’ project is video series that highlights the real life, word-for-word stories of refugees from around the world.
