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Mouna Noureddine
منى نور الدين
Noureddine in 2018
Born
Saâdia Oueslati

(1937-01-23) 23 January 1937 (age 87)
Tunis, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
OccupationActress
Years active1954–present
Notable workThe Season of Men
SpouseNoureddine Kasbaoui
Children6

Mouna Noureddine (Template:Lang-ar, born Saadia Oueslati, 23 January 1937), is a Tunisian actress.[1]

The pseudonym of Mouna Noureddine was suggested by Mohamed Hedi Remnissi, an artist working in the theater of Bizerte.

Biography

Early life

Mouna Noureddine studied in the elementary school of Muslim girls in Hammam-Lif. During this period, she was part of a local theatre troupe called "Ennahdha ettamthilia" (the student rise). She got her degree in 1952 and enrolled in the schoolteachers college of Tunis. Two years later, she switched to the Arabic theatre school of Tunis.

At the age of fifteen, Mouna, while still a student, meets during the rehearsals of The merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare the young comedian Noureddine Kasbaoui to whom she gets married later. Mouna Noureddine gave birth to two boys and four girls[2] In 1954, she worked in the municipal Arabic theatre troupe directed by Zeki Touleïmat.

The municipality of Tunis theatre troupe sign

The year after, Mohamed Agrebi, the director of the Tunis Municipality troupe, selects her to join his team, and by the time she became the one to choose for the leading roles in most of the plays.

Career: theater, cinema and television

Mouna Noureddine has played in around 150 plays, part of which was directed by Aly Ben Ayed :

In the cinema, she plays in a large number of Tunisian films including Khlifa the Tigneux, Sejnane, Fatma 75, Aziza, And tomorrow...?, The Man of Ashes or The Season of Men. Each of his interpretations, as well in Tunisia as in Maghreb and in Europe, made her earn recognition, critical praise and public appreciation. She plays in the troup of of Tunis city at the Théâtre de la Ville, at the Théâtre Récamier, at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, at the Beethoven Festival, in Iran and even in Egypt. In television, she participated in several TV serials including El Khottab Al Bab (Suitors at the door), Mnamet Aroussia (The Dream of Aroussia), Choufli Hal (find Me a Solution) and Nsibti Laaziza (My Dear Beloved Mother-in-Law), all of it directed by Slaheddine Essid. After half a century of activities, in parallel with her status as director of the troup of Tunis City since 2002 - For the first time, since the creation of this company -, she continues to participate in Tunisian and international productions.

Rewards

For her entire career, in 1985 she received the Honorary Prize from the Ministry of Culture. She has also been honored several times in numerous theater festivals in Tunisia and abroad.

Decorations

  • Commander of the Order of the Tunisian Republic (2006);
  • Grand officer of the Tunisian Order of Merit (2001).

Filmography

Cinema

Feature films

Short films

References

  1. ^ Honoring Mouna Noureddine Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine in Sfax Theatre professional, Tunisian radio, 24 April 2013
  2. ^ Ben Farhat, Soufiane (2006). Rencontres avec des Tunisiens d'exception. Tunis: Cérès. p. 422. ISBN 9973196880.
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