Said Serhan

Said Serhan is a Lebanese actor, writer and TV presenter. At an early age, he showed a love for performing arts and took part in several plays at the age of 9. After graduating from high school with a scientific diploma in 1998, he applied to the Faculty of Arts in the Lebanese University’s Fine Arts Institute where he studied theatre under the tutelage of renowned actors and directors such as Aida Sabra and Fayeq Homaissi. He graduated with an Honors Degree in 2002.

In 2005 he shot to fame in the hit TV show “Al-Darb” on Al Jazeera children’s channel, alongside Greta El Rayess, with whom he co-presented more than 1000 episodes.

Later on, he acted in several plays but it wasn’t until MAAARCH that he got his first big break with prominent director and writer Issam Bou Khaled, with whom he worked with again in 2009 in the play Banafsaj, where he played the role of a human who had been dehumanized and treated as a dog, till he had become animalised. He reunited with his co-star, Bernadette Hodeib in another play, “Black Box” (2010).

In cinema, he played in Falafel (2006) by director Michel Kammoun. On set, he met director Talal Khoury and took part in several of his films.

His roles in TV were various yet distinguishable, in “Yasmine’s Path” and “Rise of the Guns”. He had become popular among the locals. He took part in several short and feature films, working with directors such as Talal Khoury and Michel Kammoun. In 2016, Tombé du ciel (2016), a film he co-starred in with Rodrigue Sleiman, and was directed by Wissam Charaf, premiered at the Festival de Cannes, in the Prestigious Acid Selection.