Biography
Saba Mubarak is one of the very few Arab stars whose filmography includes a large number of highly successful works both internationally and throughout the Arab world. Mubarak has received several awards, including the Special Jury Award at the Arab Theater Festival, the Best Actress Award at the Middle East Now Festival in Italy, and two-time Best Jordanian Actress awards in 2009 and 2010. In addition to these awards, Mubarak won the Best Actress Award at the Silk Road International Film Festival for her role in The Guest: Aleppo-Istanbul, which also won a staggering seven awards from international film festivals. Mubarak participated in the 2018 Ramadan race with her role in the hit TV series Tayea' and competed in Ramadan 2019 with her TV series Obour.
Mubarak has had a wide range of experience as a jury member at international film festivals. She was selected as a jury member of the International Emmy Awards two times, the last of which was last year, as a jury member of the Feature and Short Competitions at the Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden, the Amman International Film Festival in Jordan, and the 38th Cairo International Film Festival. In 2018, she joined as a jury member at the Short Film Competition at the 2nd El Gouna Film Festival. Marking a comeback to the Bedouin drama, Mubarak starred in a Bedouin TV series, Haris Al Jabal (The Mountain’s Guardian), which premiered on TV in Ramadan 2020.
In September 2021, Saba attended the world premiere of her film Amira, by Mohamed Diab, at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The film won three awards at the festival: the Lanterna Magica Award, the Enrico Fulchignoni Award, and the 10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue.
With a dazzling look that captured all the guests, Saba also attended the Arab world premiere of the film at the Feature Narrative Competition of the fifth El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) a few weeks later, in October 2021. Besides its awards at the Venice Film Festival, Amira also won numerous awards at other international festivals.
Furthermore, her film Daughters of Abdul-Rahman won the Audience Award (Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award) following its world premiere in the International Competition of Cairo International Film Festival and screened at the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) in 2021
In the same year, Saba graced the cover of Marie Claire Arabia, where she was wearing Gucci’s Pre-Fall 2021 collection.
In 2023, She starred in the second season of ANBAR 6, in which she reprised her role as Laila, who faces more challenges as she navigates her life in prison while also trying to unearth the secrets of her lineage and searching for a vindication of her innocence.
Subsequently, Saba went on to turn heads with her impressive performance in two back-to-back series this year —the off-season series BEIN EL SOTOUR and the Ramadan series LAHZET GHADAB—generating a huge buzz that spread like wildfire through word of mouth, elevating Saba to a social media trend in Egypt and the Arab World and propelling the series to the top of the viewership charts.
Her upcoming work on the small screen is the Netflix original series MAW’ED MA’A AL MADY, which features a star-studded cast, including veteran actor Mahmoud Hemida, Asser Yassin, and Shereen Reda, who all come together under the helm of Al Sadeer Massoud.
On the film side, her latest film is the highly anticipated and well-funded war film ALSERB, by Ahmed Nader Galal, alongside Ahmed El Sakka, Hend Sabri, Sherif Mounir, and many more.
Before that, she headlined Ihsan Abdel-Quddous’ widely popular A NOSE AND THREE EYES, featuring Dhaffer L'Abidine, with Amir Ramsis helming the film and Wael Hamdy serving as a scriptwriter. The film world premiered at the third edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival and was released in cinemas.
