Safaa Abdallah Mohammed El Tokhi (born 22 August 1964), popularly known as Safaa El-Toukhi, is 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. ...
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She is best known for the roles in the films ''The Hunter'', ''Gunshot'' and ''Kafr Delhab''.
Personal life
She was born on 22 August 1964 in
Cairo
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, Egypt. Her father Abdallah Al-Toukhi was a radical playwright who was born on 18 August 1926 and died on 26 February 2001 at the age of 74. Her mother
Fathia al-Assal was a prominent Egyptian playwright and activist. Fathia was born on 20 February 1933 and died on 15 June 2014 at the age of 81 following an unspecified health crisis.
Career
She graduated with a bachelor's degree at Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1985. At the beginning, she worked as a writer, influenced by her mother. In 1995, he started to work at the Institute of National Culture.
Safaa began her acting career in 1979 with the television serial ''El Bahitha''. She appeared as a stage actress only in one play ''El Ayyam El Makhmoura'' staged in 1999. Then she continued to act in several films, such as ''El Zaman El Saa’b'', ''El Mohagir'', and ''Bekhit we Adila''. In the meantime, she dominated the television screen, where she starred in the serials: ''Leyali El Hulmiyya'', ''Lan Ayesh Fi Galbab Abi'', ''Mahmoud El Masry''. Her most notable television performance came through the serial ''Qadhiya Rai’ ‘Am'' with the role 'Yousra'.
Filmography
References
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Living people
1964 births
Egyptian film actresses
Egyptian television actresses
Egyptian film people