Mouna Noureddine ( ar, منى نور الدين, born Saadia Oueslati, 23 January 1937), is a Tunisian actress. The pseudonym of Mouna Noureddine was suggested by Mohamed Hedi Remnissi, an artist working in the theater of

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Biography

Early life

Mouna Noureddine studied in the elementary school of Muslim girls in

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. 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

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. 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

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the young comedian Noureddine Kasbaoui to whom she gets married later. Mouna Noureddine gave birth to two boys and four girls In 1954, she worked in the municipal Arabic theatre troupe directed by Zeki Touleïmat. Tunisia265

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

* 2015, ''The sky's limits'', Fares Naanaa * 2000, ''

The Season of Men ''The Season of Men'' ( ar, موسم الرجال , translit. ''Maussim al-rijal'', french: La saison des hommes) is a 2000 French-Tunisian drama film directed by Moufida Tlatli. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 ...

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* 1997, ''Keswa (the lost thread)'', Kelthoum Bornaz * 1996, ''

A Summer in La Goulette ''A Summer in La Goulette'' (french: Un été à La Goulette, ar, صيف حلق الوادي, ṣayf Ḥalq el-Wādī) is a 1996 film by Tunisian director Férid Boughedir. It is a narrative of how intercommunal relations deteriorated in cosmopo ...

,'' Férid Boughdir * 1994, ''The wind of fates'', Ahmed Djemai * 1992, ''Les Zazous de la vague,'' Mohamed Ali Okbi * 1992, The Sultan of The Medina,

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* 1989, ''Nomad heart,'' Fitouri Belhiba * 1989, ''Layla, my reason,''

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* 1988, '' Sama'' * 1986, ''

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'' * 1982, ''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Noureddine, Mouna 1939 births Living people Tunisian film actresses People from Tunis 20th-century Tunisian actresses