Ghassan Massoud
- Actor
Ghassan Massoud (born September 20, 1958 in Damascus) is a Syrian actor
and film-maker. He is best-known in the West for playing the role of
the Muslim military general Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 film
Kingdom of Heaven. He has also played the "Sheikh" in famous 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 films 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.
