Bassel Khayyat

Acting

Bassel Khayyat

Born

1977-08-29 (49)

Place of birth

Syria

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

A Syrian native with a degree in theatrical arts, Bassel Khayyat was always attached to acting since he was 8 years old, even participating in children's theater as a hobby. He was able to exercise that hobby into a career in acting where he would often portray daring and charismatic characters. His intensive roles and work in the television industry made him an immensely popular actor in the Arab world, especially in Syria. He executed most of his work in Syria but gained popularity in Egypt when acting in several Egyptian drama series between 2008-2015. In Ramadan 2017, Khayyat was recognized for his exceptional role when starred in 30 days series. As for his work in the film industry, som…

Known for

The Price poster
6.6

Sarah is a widowed engineer with one desperate priority — saving her young son's life. When her boss Zein offers to pay for the cancer treatment on one condition — that she spend a night with him — she faces an impossible choice. What follows spirals far beyond that night into obsession, power and complicated feelings neither of them expected. An Arabic remake of the celebrated Turkish series Binbir Gece, starring Razane Jammal and Basel Khayat, with a theme song by Elissa.

The Price

2023

Aser poster
5.5

Betrayed by his friends and the woman he loved, Majd is imprisoned but not broken. After escaping with a new face and name — Aser — he’s back with one goal: revenge.

Aser

2025

My Way poster
7.5

An aspiring artist tries to make it, facing numerous difficulties both personally and professionally throughout her life, since her persecuted childhood and adolescence as a girl living in a rural area.

My Way

2015

On the Edge of the Abyss poster
NR

Nader is lost between his parents, who are experiencing a struggle between love and hate, Lulia, who is persecuted by her stepmother, Dalal, whose hatred for her stepdaughter reaches the point of attempting murder. Dalal considers Lulia the reason for her unhappiness, but when Lulia leaves her life, she discovers her mistake. Tahseen her husband can only run away from problems and cannot solve any of them.

On the Edge of the Abyss

2007

Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi poster
NR

The series deals with the biography of the great companion Al-Qa’qa’ bin Amr Al-Tamimi, with its many heroic deeds that raised the banner of Islam in several situations, by highlighting an important Islamic stage and re-dramatizing it.

Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi

2010

Brothers poster
NR

The story of the five sons of Farid Noh, following each of their lives and the issues they face together.

Brothers

2014

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

The Gate of the Sun poster
6.5

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.

The Gate of the Sun

2004

Dreamy Visions poster
9.5

The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.

Dreamy Visions

2002

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna poster
9.0

The film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home The entire role of the father is also practiced, and there are uncommon forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, and plucking his hair, and her daughter (Princess) is also punished by shaving her head because she colluded with her brother.

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna

2002

The Long Night poster
NR

Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.

The Long Night

2009

The Devils (The Return) poster
6.5

After a prolonged separation, the members of The Devils team reunite once more to foil a wicked plot intended to steal a large number of Egyptian antiquities.

The Devils (The Return)

2007

Series credits

The Price poster
6.6

Sarah is a widowed engineer with one desperate priority — saving her young son's life. When her boss Zein offers to pay for the cancer treatment on one condition — that she spend a night with him — she faces an impossible choice. What follows spirals far beyond that night into obsession, power and complicated feelings neither of them expected. An Arabic remake of the celebrated Turkish series Binbir Gece, starring Razane Jammal and Basel Khayat, with a theme song by Elissa.

The Price

2023

Aser poster
5.5

Betrayed by his friends and the woman he loved, Majd is imprisoned but not broken. After escaping with a new face and name — Aser — he’s back with one goal: revenge.

Aser

2025

My Way poster
7.5

An aspiring artist tries to make it, facing numerous difficulties both personally and professionally throughout her life, since her persecuted childhood and adolescence as a girl living in a rural area.

My Way

2015

On the Edge of the Abyss poster
NR

Nader is lost between his parents, who are experiencing a struggle between love and hate, Lulia, who is persecuted by her stepmother, Dalal, whose hatred for her stepdaughter reaches the point of attempting murder. Dalal considers Lulia the reason for her unhappiness, but when Lulia leaves her life, she discovers her mistake. Tahseen her husband can only run away from problems and cannot solve any of them.

On the Edge of the Abyss

2007

Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi poster
NR

The series deals with the biography of the great companion Al-Qa’qa’ bin Amr Al-Tamimi, with its many heroic deeds that raised the banner of Islam in several situations, by highlighting an important Islamic stage and re-dramatizing it.

Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi

2010

Brothers poster
NR

The story of the five sons of Farid Noh, following each of their lives and the issues they face together.

Brothers

2014

Friendly Fire poster
8.5

The show revolves around a group of friends who have remained very close since their school days. Though life has taken them down different paths, when they're brought back together, new confrontations and secrets arise, and a series of very surprising events unfold.

Friendly Fire

2013

The Scale poster
6.0

While defending a businessman on trial for murder, Noha uncovers some hard-hitting truths that put her in danger in this suspenseful legal drama.

The Scale

2016

The Journey poster
8.5

On flight 710, a number of passengers share one thing with each other: that they are all mental patients with hidden secrets. Their plans and stories converge into one fate.

The Journey

2021

People of Love poster
NR

The series revolves around failed love stories as a result of a compelling circumstance or because of a social or financial problem or a problem related to religion so that the audience develops a state of sympathy with the series characters In each episode the series presents a separate station from the other detailing a glowing love relationship that was extinguished by various circumstances

People of Love

2006

30 Days poster
9.2

Tarek Helmy is a young married psychiatrist who has a daughter named Farida. On her first birthday, a patient called Tawfiq Al-Masry comes to Tarek, explaining to him an experiment he wants to carry out: he will pick someone, "The Chosen", and put him through a cycle of self-destructive crises over thirty days.

30 Days

2017

Maraya 2003 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maraya 2003

2003

Palestinian Alienation poster
9.5

The first comprehensive dramatic telling of the Palestinian Nakba, seen through the eyes of a poor rural family from the 1930s British Mandate era through the massacres of 1948 and the defeat of 1967. Written by Palestinian poet Walid Seif — based on his own family history — and directed by the late Syrian master Hatem Ali, this is widely considered one of the greatest Arab television dramas ever produced. A monumental work of collective memory, historical witness and human endurance.

Palestinian Alienation

2004

Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi poster
8.0

A sweeping historical epic tracing the life of Saladin from his humble origins to his unification of fractured Muslim kingdoms and his legendary recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders after nearly a century of occupation. Starring Jamal Suleiman and directed by the late Hatem Ali, written by Walid Seif — the same partnership behind Palestinian Alienation — this is widely regarded as one of the finest historical dramas in Arabic television, epic in scale yet deeply human in its portrayal of leadership, faith and sacrifice.

Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi

2001

The Killing poster
8.6

Police Captain Hisham begins his investigation into the murder of an influencer found dead in the car of a national club electoral candidate.

The Killing

2022

We Will Be Right Back poster
NR

Ammo Najeeb, a respectable elder is hopeful to reunite with his family. After suffering a health episode, he travels to Lebanon to live among his children, who are living a lifestyle that pleases no one whatsoever!

We Will Be Right Back

2013

Sons of Oppression poster
NR

Essam and Ragaa experience unsolvable problems and disputes over one of Essam's colleagues. These disputes increase to affect their children negatively over time.

Sons of Oppression

2002

Cordoba's Spring poster
9.5

The second chapter of the acclaimed Andalusian trilogy by Walid Seif and Hatem Ali. Set in the golden age of Umayyad Cordoba, it traces the extraordinary rise of Muhammad ibn Abi Amir — known as Al-Mansur — from a young scholar arriving in Cordoba seeking knowledge, to the most powerful man in Andalusia. A sweeping story of ambition, political genius and the glittering, fragile peak of Arab civilisation in Spain. Stars Taim Hassan and Jamal Suleiman.

Cordoba's Spring

2003

Seraa Al Zaman poster
NR

Set in a traditional Damascene neighborhood, the story follows—in a comedic way—the protagonist's quest to find the woman he loved but never confessed his feelings to over forty years ago, after he begins seeing her in his dreams every day.

Seraa Al Zaman

2002

Behind the Sun poster
10.0

Alaa Al-Din Zeibak, a man from a well-off family, has Down syndrome, and he crosses paths with Badr, a man of a humble origin, who has autism spectrum disorder. As they interact, several situations ensue, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the differently-abled people.

Behind the Sun

2010

Love Has Decreed poster
7.0

The series discusses the stories of young university students, their reality during their studies, and the hardships and unknown fate they endure after graduation.

Love Has Decreed

2006

Al Zahir Baybars poster
7.0

The life and exploits of al-Zahir Baibars, Sultan of Egypt and the Levant, his journey from being a slave to Prince Ala’ al-Din al-Bunduqari, until he became sultan, and the many important events he was involved in, like the fall of Baghdad at the hands of Mongol commander Hulagu Khan, and the battle of Ain Jalut.

Al Zahir Baybars

2005

The Writer poster
6.3

A crime writer finds himself the prime suspect in a murder that emulates his own novel and must now join hands with a die-hard fan to prove his innocence.

The Writer

2019

The First Lady poster
NR

When Hashem divorces his first wife, he marries the ambitious Maryam who supports his run for the presidency and tries to seize control of the government when he is hospitalized after an assassination attempt.

The First Lady

2014

Men and women poster
NR

The series explores the lives of ordinary people in Syrian society navigating personal struggles, societal conflicts, and the gap between dreams and reality

Men and women

2005

Big Dreams poster
10.0

The Halaby family works in trade. When the father decides to write all his property over to one of his sons, the two brothers clash, until the eldest brother falls ill, and his younger son is forced to give up his ambition to take care of their business.

Big Dreams

2004

The Leader poster
8.0

In 1918 Damascus, after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and before the French colonization of the country, six Damascene neighborhoods decide to choose one head to rule over them, only for clashes over the throne to crystalize and extend.

The Leader

2011

Orchidia poster
8.0

The Assyrian king conquered Orchidia kingdom, the defeated king's wife and her two children fled to Samara Kingdom, to start her revenge.

Orchidia

2017

Civil War poster
NR

The events revolve around Mariam, a woman who is forced by circumstances to abandon her daughter, Tamara, as a child, so the latter grows cold toward her. Mariam is also being deceived by her psychiatrist and her husband, Youssef.

Civil War

2021

Ayamana Alhulwa poster
NR

A Syrian social drama series that sheds light on a neighborhood in one of the slums in the vicinity of Damascus, around a poor family consisting of a mother and her four children, who strive to meet their needs and achieve their ambitions with the tools available to them, while focusing on solving future problems at the time, leaving them to chance, luck, mischief, whim, or influence.

Ayamana Alhulwa

2003

A look of love poster
NR

A love story fueled by conflict and mystery, falls between two, and major changes in their lives.

A look of love

2024

Tango poster
NR

The story of a quadrant of Tango dancers as they discuss the difficulties of love and how to deal with one's partner. As they all have different views, they all have different opinions on what to do after a break up. One of them however, has an opinion that is extremely far away from any of their points of view, as she believes that suicide is the perfect thing to do after breaking up with one's lover.

Tango

2018

Forgiveness poster
NR

Fadeela tries to move on after the death of her husband and son in an accident, while Amjad, her son, tries to help her. Amjad meets by chance his childhood sweetheart, Azza, in his new job. A love story between Azza and Amjad, whose hopes and efforts are united to make a happy family. But their love faces unexpected obstacles which turns into an inescapable parting story.

Forgiveness

2011

City Secrets poster
8.0

In a dramatic and social framework, Abu Mansour’s children work hard to improve their financial conditions, but they encounter major life obstacles, which they try to overcome.

City Secrets

2000

Unknown Culprit poster
8.0

The story opens with the murder of businessman Faisal Muthanna, ruled a homicide likely perpetrated by someone who wanted to rob him of his wealth. Elsewhere, Samir, a despairing tailor and taxi driver, reunites with his friend Yazen after years of war separated them.

Unknown Culprit

2021

الدوامة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الدوامة

2009

Blood Oath poster
NR

Salim Fayad is an ordinary pharmaceutical company owner whose life is shattered in seconds when his car kills the daughter of Lebanon's most feared drug lord. Instead of revenge, the dealer makes him an offer — become his personal assassin, or watch his family die. A Lebanese thriller adapted from the celebrated Serbian series Besa, following a decent man's descent into a world he was never meant to inhabit, doing terrible things to protect the people he loves.

Blood Oath

2020

Forbidden Bread poster
NR

The series revolves around the exploitation of women by men in society, through the stories of three friends—Rateb, Wahib, and Abu Adnan—who are involved in illegal activities, and the story of Zuhair, who exploits runaway girls in immoral activities.

Forbidden Bread

2010

Women's Love poster
NR

Ghada and her four kids suffer at the hands of her husband Farid who ruined their lives with his love for gambling. Farid's friend Adel tries to help them. But as Adel and Ghada fall in love, neither can ever tell the other.

Women's Love

2014

The Sculptor poster
4.0

Yaman returns to Beirut to teach sculpture, moving back into his family's long-abandoned home — the same house where his father was mysteriously murdered years ago. What he finds there pulls him into a labyrinth of old secrets, unsettling parallels and questions that were never meant to be answered. A Lebanese mystery drama that peels back its layers slowly and keeps you guessing. Stars Basel Khayat.

The Sculptor

2020