Ghassan Massoud

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Ghassan Massoud
Birth name Ghassan Massoud
Born September 20, 1958 (age 48)
Damascus, Syria
Notable roles Saladin in Kingdom of Heaven

Ghassan Massoud (Arabic: غسّان مسعود‎) (born September 20, 1958 in Damascus) is a Syrian actor and filmmaker. He is best known in the West for playing the role of Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven. He has also played the "Sheikh" in the Turkish film "Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak" (Valley of the Wolves: Iraq). Massoud is best known in Syria for his appearance in many Syrian-made films, and writing and directing the theatre play Diplomasiyyoun, and was part of the Syrian Ministry of Culture’s National Theater’s 2002 season.

Married with both a son and daughter, Massoud teaches Drama at both the Damascus Music and Drama School and High Institution of Theatrical Arts.

He has appeared in the Syrian television miniseries The Chant of Rain, and in Haytham Hakky's well known work Memories of the Forthcoming Age, and on the Syrian stage was an actor in August Strindberg's Miss Julie.

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