Basma Ahmed

Basma Hassan
Basma at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born	(1976-12-07) December 7, 1976 (age 40) Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Amr Hamzawy

Basma Hassan (born December 7, 1976 in Cairo) is an Egyptian actress.

Basma's father is a journalist and her mother is a women's rights activist. She is the granddaughter through her mother of the late Youssef Darwish, who was an Egyptian Jew and a communist activist. Basma began her career acting at the university in the film "El Madyna (The City)" where the director Yousry Nasrallah chose her to participate in the film; however, before the movie she tried to be a radio presenter and had already taken an interview in the national radio channel. But before anything, Yousry Nasrallah selected her for the movie "El Madyna (city)".

On 15 February 2012 Basma Hassan married the political activist Amr Hamzawy, who was a Member of Parliament for the Freedom Egypt Party.