Mario Bassil (Arabic: ماريو باسيل) (born 12 January 1965) is a Lebanese comic actor,[1] stand-up comedian, TV presenter, producer and director, best known for his controversial character Marioca[2][3] and his daring work in the Comedy Night theatrical series since 2003, that showed nightly in Beirut, which he directed, produced and took part in, that approaches social and political topics of the duration of an hour.
[4][3][5] He featured for five years in the TV comedy series Mouniaa Fi Loubnan (منع في لبنان).
He studied the communication at the Lebanese American University and then continued his studies and majored in cinema in France in 2006, where he gained the theatrical experience, as he worked in more than 30 plays for major authors from Shakespeare to Beckett to Eugène Ionesco.
In 2020, he went to Moscow, the capital of Russia, to spend the quarantine period there, publishing a video clip from a park with his wife and one-year-old daughter.
He played comedic roles for years in the television program Mouniaa Fi Loubnan (منع في لبنان)[9] on LBC and presented works in the world of comedy theater with a critical nature, where he dealt in most of his plays with the political and social reality.