Bassem Hamraoui

Bassem Hamraoui is a Tunisian actor, comedian, commentator, theatrical producer and director, born on 15 February 1988. He began his artistic career in 2012, and is among the first new faces the audience came to know on the programme لاباس (Labes) on Al Hiwar Al Tounsi, presenting various sketches across the seasons of Labes. In the same year he presented his first play, titled Stand By (ستاند باي), with Faisal Al Hadhiri.

In 2014 he presented the play مباركة ومبروكة في رحلة العمر (Mabrouka wa Mabrouk fi Rihlat Al Omr) with Faisal Al Hadhiri. In 2016 he presented a play titled ملا عيلة (Mla Ila) and worked as a commentator on the programme أمور جدية (Omour Jiddiya) through all its seasons until 2018. In 2017 he produced and wrote the play دراقة (Draka), and that June he secured a place on the list of best Tunisian comedians and then won the prize for best Tunisian comedian in the Mosaique FM poll for Ramadan 2017. He gained this fame through his continuous work and his ability to embody comic characters, as well as his success in the role of Samir Sankouh in دنيا أخرى (Dounia Okhra).

He won prizes in the Ramadan awards as best Tunisian comedian, including the Sofiane Al Chaari prize for the years 2018 and 2019. In 2020 he directed and wrote the series قلب الذيب (Galb Al Dhib), produced by Khaoula Slimani, set in the 1940s during the Second World War, broadcast at the start of Ramadan 2020 on Al Wataniya 1.