Mimi Chakib or Mimi Shakib (25 December 1913 – 20 May 1983) (), born Ameena Chakib, was an Egyptian
actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
. She mostly played secondary roles, and appeared in more than 150 films between 1940s and early 1980s.
Virtue for Sale
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'' in 1950. She co-starred in '' Doa al karawan'' in 1959 alongside actors such as
Faten Hamama
Faten Ahmed Hamama (, ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity an ...
and
Ahmed Mazhar
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Salah Zulfikar
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and
Sabah
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as well as the 1966 film '' Three Thieves''. Her career was at its peak in the 1940s.
She was featured in her last film appearance in the 1982 film ''
An Egyptian Story
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