Bella Awa Gassama yar wasan kwaikwayon Gambiya ce. Gassama ita ce 'yar'uwar' sanannen alkalin wasan ƙwallon ƙafa nan Bakary "Papa" Gassama Ta kammala karatun ta na O a matakin kimiyya a makarantar Marina ta Duniya a 2004. Ta yi fim dinta na farko a wannan shekarar, a cikin Arrou (Rigakafin). An nuna fim din a bikin nuna finafinai na Pan-Afirka a Los Angeles, kuma an zabi Gassama a matsayin ta na Jarumar da ta fi dacewa a Matsayin Tallafawa a bikin bayar da kyaututtuka na Afirka na Fim na 2. An kuma zaba ta a matsayin fitacciyar ‘yar wasan Gambiya a bikin fim din Vinasha. Ta kammala takaddun ta na Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) a Jollof Tutors College a 2008. Haka kuma a shekarar 2008, Gassama ta fara fitowa a fim dinta na farko a Najeriya, My Gambian Holiday tare da Desmond Elliot da Oge Okoye. Tana da rawar tallafi a cikin fim ɗin fim mai suna Mirror Boy tare da Fatima Jabbe da Genevieve Nnaji . A shekarar 2012, Gassama ta kammala karatun banki da hada-hadar kudi a Kwalejin Task Crown.