Acting
Oct 31, 1971
Damascus, Syria
Omaia Malas
Acting
Biography
Omaia Malas is a Syrian actress known for her extensive work in film and television. Raised in an artistic family, she is the daughter of filmmaker and screenwriter Mohammad Malas and a music researcher. She graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 1992 and joined the Syrian Artists Syndicate the following year. Malas made her screen debut in The Night (1992), directed by her father. She gained wider recognition with appearances in the television series Al-Jawareh and Yawmiyat Moudir Aam in 1995, establishing a career that would span historical dramas, contemporary stories, and comedy. Her notable television credits include Hammam Al-Qishani, Al-Khawali, Al-Zir Salem, Abnaa Al-Qahr, Haneen, Ala Hafet Al-Hawiya, Al-Khobz Al-Haram, Al-Dabour, Zaman Al-Barghout, and Wardeh Shamiyeh. She became particularly well known for portraying Buran in the long-running Syrian period drama Bab Al-Hara, a role she continued playing across numerous seasons. Her film credits also include Bab Al-Maqam (2005) and Maryam (2012). Malas has remained active in Syrian television, appearing in productions such as Al-Kandoush, Morabba Al-Ezz (2023), Zuqaq Al-Jinn (2023), Beit Ahli (2024), Layali Roxy (2025), and Matbakh Al-Madina (2026). Over a career spanning more than three decades, she has portrayed a wide range of characters in contemporary social dramas, historical productions, traditional Damascene stories, and comedies.
Feature Films (1)
The fate of three women in wartime is united, each of whom is called Maryam and living at different times facing the war in its moral, social and brutal aspects, but each of them will not lose a life
Mariam
Television & Series (29)
The events revolve around the Levantine environment and the social problems that permeate it, during the period of the French occupation of the country.
Tahoun Al-Shar
A social drama that shows how contradictory qualities can bring people together, and how the Levantine society witnesses manifestations of love, hatred, violence, possessiveness and domineering control of the weak. But a reckoning is coming for everyone
Jarh Al Ward
The story of Nassar Ibn Oraibi, a fighter against injustice, that sheds light on the life in the Damascus neighborhood and the role of one woman who becomes responsible for the house and her four daughters in light of her husband's absence during the Hajj.
Al Khawali
The series goes into details of the events that Syria went through between the years 1955-1959, including the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, the establishment of unity between Syria and Egypt, and the revolution against the monarchy in Iraq, through the Qishani neighborhood, where its people work as merchants, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and other works.
