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name: "Ahd Kamel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ahd-kamel"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 November 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T12:25:27.578438+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ahd Kamel

Actor. Born 14 November 1980 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 November 1980, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Also known as:** عهد حسن كامل, Ahd Hassan Kamel 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahd_Kamel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20420866, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2269188/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1160690

## Coming up

- *سلالة* (2026-10-02)

## Biography

Ahd Kamel, also credited as Ahd Hassan Kamel or عهد حسن كامل, is a Saudi Arabian actress and filmmaker. Born on 14 November 1980 in Riyadh, she grew up in Saudi Arabia and moved to New York City in 1998. She earned a BFA in Animation & Communication from Parsons School of Design in 2004, a directing degree from the New York Film Academy in 2005, and studied acting at the William Esper Studio.

Kamel is known for her role as Ms. Hussa in the 2012 film *Wadjda*, as Fatima Asif in the 2018 BBC Two series *Collateral*, as Leila Maloof in the 2022 film *All the Old Knives*, and for voicing Um Al Duwais in the 2013 film *Djinn*. She has also written and directed short films including *Sanctity* (2013) and her feature debut *My Driver and I* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wadjda* (2012), Fi1m 80, as Ms. Hussa — [page](https://film.one/film/wadjda.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *سلالة* (2026), Acting
- *My Driver and I* (2024), Writer, Director
- *Concordia* (2024), series, as Fatemah
- *All the Old Knives* (2022), as Leila Maloof
- *Honour* (2020), series, as Diana Nammi
- *Being* (2020), as Agent Costa
- *Boys On Film 19: No Ordinary Boy* (2019), as Halima (segment "Run[a]way Arab")
- *Run(a)way Arab* (2018), as Halima
- *Collateral* (2018), series, as Fatima Asif
- *Rattle the Cage* (2015), as Wafa
- *From A to B* (2015), as Rana
- *Djinn* (2013), as Um Al Duwais (voice)
- *Wadjda* (2012), as Ms. Hussa — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/wadjda.md)
- *Sanctity* (2012), Areej, Director
- *Where To* (2006), Producer

## Gallery

- ![Ahd Kamel on the red carpet of the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/694505/gallery-4aed82d74387.jpg) Ahd Kamel on the red carpet of the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival — Youseftuqan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Ahd_Kamel_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ahd Kamel](https://film.one/media/person/694505/gallery-44ad07dd5dbb.jpg) Ahd Kamel — Youseftuqan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ahd_Kamel_DIFF_2018.jpg/1280px-Ahd_Kamel_DIFF_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ahd Kamel](https://film.one/media/person/694505/gallery-db178982c5dd.jpg) Ahd Kamel — Image via TMDB

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