Soad Mohammad Kamal Hosny was an Egyptian actress. She was known as the "Cinderella of the Screen" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world.
A movie star is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. The term is used for performers who are marketable stars as they become popular household names and whose names are used to promote movies, for example in trailers and posters. The most prominent movie stars are known in the industry as bankable stars.
Hanan Tork is a retired Egyptian actress and ballerina. She was born as Hanan Hasan Abdelkrim Tork, and is credited as Hanan Tork. She has two brothers. Her father owned a factory for clothes.
Samia Gamal was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Gamal performed in more than 50 movies during her career. She is regarded as one of the most prominent Egyptian belly dancers in the golden era of Egyptian cinema.
Faten Ahmed Hamama was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress. Later revered as an icon in Egyptian cinema. In 1996, nine of the films she starred in were included in the Top hundred films in the history of Egyptian cinema by the cinema critics of Cairo International Film Festival.
Sabah, born Jeanette Georges Feghali, was a Lebanese vocalist and actress. She specialised in the Mawwāl, a popular genre of traditional music in the Arabsphere, and performed in many Egyptian films and songs.
Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Lotfi, was an Egyptian actress. During the apex of her career, she was one of the most popular actresses of Egyptian cinema's golden age.
The Egyptian film industry is today based mainly in Cairo, which is sometimes referred to as Hollywood on the Nile or Hollywood of the East, despite having its beginnings in the city of Alexandria in the early 20th century. A strong industry grew in Egypt with a high distribution rate among the Arab world, and Cairo produces around three-quarters of the Arab world's screen output. It has had a large effect on the African and Arab film industry since the early 20th century.
Mary Queeny is the stage name of Mary Boutros Younis, was a Lebanese-born Egyptian actress and film producer.
Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one of the most influential actors in the history of the Egyptian film industry. Zulfikar had notable roles in more than a hundred feature films in multiple genres during his 37-year career, mostly as the leading actor. He was one of the most dominant leading men in Egyptian cinema.
Mohamed Hamed Hassan Khan was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was a pivotal member of the "1980s generation" in Egyptian cinema, along with directors such as Khairy Beshara, Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Atef El-Tayeb, and Yousry Nasrallah. His main aesthetic credo, in line with directors from his generation, was a reinvigorated realism seeking direct documentation of everyday life in Cairo, beyond the walls of the studio. Khan has 4 films in the Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Darine Hamze is a Lebanese actress, director and producer. She has been working in film, television and theatre since 2001 in The Middle East and Europe. Hamze won the Best Actress Award in Oran International Film Festival 2017 for her role in film Nuts.
Hala Shiha is an Egyptian actress best known for portraying the main roles in Snakes and Ladders, and Lost in America.
Basma Ahmed Sayyed Hassan is an Egyptian actress.
Donia Samir Youssef Ghanem is an Egyptian actress and singer. She is the daughter of actor Samir Ghanem and actress Dalal Abdel Aziz; and sister of Amy (Amal). Donia graduated from MSA University and began her artistic life in 2001 when she was 16. She had her first role in a TV show called "Justice has many faces".
Nelly Karim is an Egyptian actress, model, and ballerina.
Before the Summer Crowds is an Egyptian film directed by Mohamed Khan and released in 2016. Starring Maged el Kedwany, Hana Sheha, Ahmed Dawood, Lana Mushtaq and Hany El Metennawy, it premiered at the 12th Dubai International Film Festival in 2015. It was then selected to represent Egypt in the 5th Luxor African Film Festival in March 2016 before commercial release in Egyptian cinemas in April and rollout to Iraq, Tunisia and the UAE in May.
Yasmin Raeis is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in a television series called "3ard khas". In addition, she was the main character under the supervision of the movie director Mohamed Khan in a movie called "Factory Girl", a movie that was a big success and won a lot of prizes, both locally and internationally.
Sherine Adel, better known as Shery Adel, is an Egyptian actress. She began acting when she was a child in TV advertisements. Her first film role was in Friends or Business in 2001. She then acted in many movies such as: Outlaw in 2007, Hassan and Marcus in 2008, Amer Al-Behar in 2009 and A Bewildered Lovebird in 2010. She also acted in many series such as: King Farouk in 2007 as Narriman Sadek, Unknown Number in 2012, Temporary Name in 2013, and The Sin in 2014. She was labeled as Egyptian cinema chocolate.
