Kais Nashef (Arabic: قيس ناشف; Hebrew: קאיס נאשף; born 1978 (1978)) is an Israeli actor.

Nashef was born in Tayibe, Israel,[1] and is of both Palestinian[2] and German descent.

[citation needed] He studied acting at the Beit Zvi Institute of Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.

He later played the lead role in Paradise Now, a film about two would-be suicide bombers in the West Bank.

[3][4] In 2018, he won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Tel Aviv on Fire.