Mouna Noureddine

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Mouna Noureddine
منى نور الدين
Red carpet of the Carthage Film Festival 2018 Mouna Noureddine 2.jpg
Mouna Noureddine, in 2018
Born
Saâdia Oueslati

(1937-01-23) 23 January 1937 (age 84)
NationalityTunisian
OccupationActress
Years active1954–present

Mouna Noureddine (Arabic: منى نور الدين‎, born Saadia Oueslati, January 23, 1937 in Tunis), 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 the egyptian 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.

Filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Honoring Mouna Noureddine Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine in Sfax Theatre professional, Tunisian radio, April 24, 2013
  2. ^ Ben Farhat, Soufiane (2006). Rencontres avec des Tunisiens d'exception. Tunis: Cérès. p. 422. ISBN 9973196880.

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