Nahed Sherif (), (1 January 1942 – 7 April 1981) was an Egyptian actress who came to prominence in

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and Lebanese films of the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Born Samiha Zaki El-Nial () and a

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dropout, she was discovered by director Hussein Helmy El-Mohandess and made her debut in 1958.Nahied Sherif
at ElCinema In 1961, she married El-Mohandess and he directed two films offering her starring roles opposite Egyptian Cinema's box-office mogul

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in the

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, ''

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'' (''عاصفة من الحب''), '' Me and my Daughters'' (''أنا وبناتي''), earning commercial success for both films''.'' Her marriage with El-Mohandess lasted for a brief period and she later married fellow actor

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. While married to El-Shennawy, she was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the third time in ''

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'' (''برج'' ''العذراء'') and for the fourth time in the

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'' (''القتلة''), both films were box-office hits''.'' After divorce with El-Shennawi, Sherif moved to

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and made her Lebanese film debut with 1973

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'' Kuwait Connection'' (''ذئاب لا تأكل اللحم'') directed by Sami A. Khouri who reached fame with '' The Lady of the Black Moons''. She later starred in a number of other Lebanese films and married Lebanese Armenian Edward Gergian. She was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the fifth and last time in the

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; ''Desire and Price'' (''الرغبة والثمن''), a commercial hit released in 1978. She was diagnosed with

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in late 1970s and died in 1981.

References

External links

Nahied Sherif
at ElCinema * Egyptian film actresses 1942 births 1981 deaths Actresses from Alexandria 20th-century Egyptian actresses {{Egypt-actor-stub