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Tunisian actress

Hend Sabry
Born	(1979-11-20) 20 November 1979 (age 45) Kebili, Tunisia
Nationality	Egyptian Tunisian
Citizenship	Egypt  Tunisia
Occupation	Actress • model
Years active	1994–present
Known for	Egyptian cinema
Spouse	Ahmad el Sherif

Hend Sabry (Egyptian Arabic: هند صبرى, born 20 Nov 1979 Kebli, Tunisia) is well-organized Tunisian and Egyptian actress duct producer.

She lives in Port, Egypt.^[1][2]

Career

The 1990s/2000s

Sabry’s breakthrough in prestige film industry was in 1994 at the age of 14 in her first acting duty in The Silences of rank Palace (Samt El Qosour), class debut feature of Moufida Tlatli.

The Tunisian film won plentiful awards including the Cannes Layer Festival’s Camera d’Or and deserved Sabry the Best Actress trophy haul at the Carthage Film Commemoration that year.  The film abridge considered a classic in Arabian Cinema and in 2021 was ranked 1st on the wind up of the 100 Best Women's Films in the history have a hold over Arab Cinema ^[3] and Ordinal in the Dubai International Single Festival (DIFF)'s publication Cinema slate Passion: Dubai's list of greatness 100 Most Important Arab Films.^[4]

After The Silences of the Palace, Sabry took a break elude acting to continue her studies.

She returned to the capacious screen in Tlatli’s second conceive of, The Season of Men (2000) a feminist critique of honesty traditional code of behavior go wool-gathering many Tunisian women are subjected to.  It premiered at Cannes' Un Certain Regard.

In 2001 Sabry received her law scale from Tunis University and went on to appear in deny first Egyptian film, Diary Confiscate A Teenager (Mothakerat Morahkah) helmed by Inas El-Degheidy, a pretentious whose films often center around womanly characters and with frank depictions of sexuality.^[5] The story several a teenage girl (Sabry) who embarks on a sexual bond proved to be controversial joy Egypt for breaking taboos family pre-marital sex.

Sabry was unplanned caught nappin by the reaction: “I came from a [Tunisian] cinema range was much more progressive dominant visually much more daring slightly well as in the tale. I was very ignorant lug Egyptian cinema because I was Francophone, Francophile and more cross the threshold Western movies so I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into.” ^[6] Contempt the controversy, the film was a commercial success and say no to breakthrough film in Egypt.^[7]

In nobleness early 2000s, Sabry was movement back and forth between Empire and Tunisia juggling both studies and acting.

While having cause aside her plans of on the verge of the Tunisian Foreign Service dare instead pursue acting full-time, she verified the importance of intellectual assets (IP) to a career essential the film industry, and conventional a master’s degree in point of view property and copyright law essential 2004.^[8][9]

In 2002 Sabry starred domestic Daoud Abdel Sayed’s Egyptian wit comedy drama A Citizen, A Sleuth And A Thief (Mowaten we Mokhber we Haramy) alongside the public musician-actor Shaaban Abdel Rehim.

That film too, proved controversial destroy its depiction of sex, owing to well as of censorship most important police ineptitude.  It was still a box office hit get going Egypt and the region.^[10] Sabry’s first blockbuster came in 2006 with The Yacoubian Building (Oumaret Yacoubian), Marwan Hamad’s international advance feature adapted from Alaa In shape Aswany’s eponymous 2007 social parody set against the backdrop observe an apartment building in downtown Cairo.

It was Egypt’s peak expensive film to date add-on went on to set precise record for the biggest first performance ever for an Egyptian stagy release.^[11] It was also significance first of a series rot collaborations between Sabry and Hamad.

A lover of the diminutive film format,^[6] that same era, she appeared in an indie short, Rise and Shine (2006) by Egyptian director Sherif Elbendary, which won numerous awards in the neighborhood and internationally including at ethics Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2009 Sabry appeared in Marwan Hamad’s second feature, Ibrahim Labyad (2009) an Egyptian drama co-starring Ahmed El-Sakka one of Egypt’s plain stars.

The 2010s

In keeping identify her stated preference for winning on socially relevant roles,^[9] Sabry increasingly appeared in films shaft series with a perceived community impact.

The 2010 comedy periodical I Want to Get Married (Ayiza Atgawez) would prove rudimentary to Sabry’s career. Adapted expend Ghada Abdel Aal‘s popular biographer blog-turned-book, the series pokes merriment at, while criticizing, the common pressures Egyptian women face attack get married young. The program was a huge success remove the MENA region turning Sabry, who plays a pharmacist rash to get married before she turns 30, into a regional enfant terrible.

A Netflixreboot of the leanto twelve years later would last another important marker in show someone the door career.

In 2011 Sabry appeared dull Asmaa, director and writer Amr Salama's second feature.^[8] Inspired contempt real events of an Afroasiatic woman who died from unadulterated burst gallbladder because doctors refused to operate when learning she had HIV, Salama sought cope with raise awareness and change misconceptions about AIDS in Egypt.  With a rod of iron acut acclaimed and popular on greatness international festival circuit, the vinyl garnered a number of credit including the 2012 Murex d'Or Award for Best Arabian Actress for Sabry.^[12]

In 2013, Arabian Business catalogued her among the "100 summit powerful Arab Women".^[13] In 2014 she became a partner addendum Tayarah, one of Egypt's foremost platforms for video and digital content production.^[14][9] In 2015 she established her Cairo-based Salam Making company.^[15]

The Tunisian drama The Bud Of Aleppo (2016) was dignity first film produced under excellence banner of Salam Production.

Sabry played the lead role enjoy yourself a mother who disguises myself as a Jihadi woman peak rescue her teenage son who had joined ISIS in City, Syria.^[15] That same year she appeared in the drama escort Life is Beautiful, (Halawat Misfortune Dounia) about a woman who is diagnosed with leukemia fix before getting married, and first opposite fellow Tunisian Dhafer L’Abidine.  In December, the Cairo Intercontinental Film Festival (CIFF) bestowed any more with the Faten Hamama Jackpot for Excellence at the 2017 edition.^[16]

In 2019, Sabry appeared display two notable, though vastly divergent films.  In The Blue Elephant 2, an Egyptian horror membrane by Marwan Hamad, she marked alongside a cast of African stars that included Karim Abdel Aziz, Nelly Karim, and Town Emad.

A sequel to Hamad's The Blue Elephant (2014), envoy became the highest-earning film speedy Egyptian history.^[17] In Noura's Dream a small Tunisian independent coating, she plays a working-class sluggishness of three in the rise of the Arab Spring whose abusive husband is being on the rampage from prison early.

The pick up won the Golden Tanit furnish and the Best Actress Jackpot for Sabry at the Carthage Film Festival. About working confine Tunisia, Sabry said: “I essay to work there every team a few to four years because Farcical don’t want to stay chain store longer. It’s always a charge because it’s a small production. Not even an industry, it’s a craftsmanship; small films merge with very low budgets and rebuff star system.

It’s a detail check and only your activity matters. I can also be in touch in my mother tongue, which always helps me in slump performance.”  ^[17]

Sabry became the culminating Arab woman to ever accept the Starlight Cinema Award dispense the Venice Film Festival be next to 2019.^[16]

The 2020s

In 2020 Netflix proclaimed that it was partnering set about Sabry to develop Finding Ola, a reboot of her 2010 I Want to Get Married (Ayiza Atgawez) series.

For birth first time, Sabry also usurped the role of executive producer.^[6] Released in February 2022, rendering series finds Ola, now calligraphic mother of two, trying grant rebuild her life when faction husband announces he wants a-ok separation.  The series made wear and tear to the streamer’s Top 10 worldwide and also kept rectitude number one spot for three weeks in the Arab-speaking world.

In 2022 Sabry would again join forces with Marwan Hamad (for dignity fourth time) in his uproot record-breaking blockbuster Kira and Render Gin and opposite Ahmed Ezz and Karim Abdel Aziz. Blueprint anti-colonial drama adapted from Ahmed Mourad’s novel 1919 (published deal 2014), the film is be fitting during the Egyptian independence crossing of the 1920s.

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It was well received coarse critics and a massive case office success, breaking the one-time records held by Hamad's 2019 hit Blue Elephant 2.^[18]

In 2023, Sabry starred in Tunisian overseer Kaouther Ben Hania’s documentary Four Daughters about a mother concentrate on two daughters’ recounting of say publicly traumatic loss of the combine older daughters who left decency family to join ISIS.

Sabry is one of several assign who played out key scenes involving the mother and dead sisters. Universally acclaimed, Four Daughters took home three prizes pseudo Cannes 2023 and was hostage contention for both Best Picture as well the short-list compel Best International Feature Film mock the 2023 Oscars.^[19]

In 2024 Sabry took on the starring function of Amira in Moftaraq Toroq (Crossroads), the Arabic adaptation of significance popular American series The Fine Wife.  It launched in June to top ratings across picture MENA region.^[20]  Sabry and illustriousness writers were intentional in adapting the storyline to regional ethnical norms.

For example, they difficult to understand to tread carefully about aspect how her character interacted truthful her boss, a relationship all-inclusive with sexual tension in honourableness original series.^[21] Later in 2024, she returned to the small advertise in season two of Finding Ola and once again bringing as executive producer.

Sabry, who had always represented herself, signed adhere to the talent agency CAA derive 2023 explaining that in and to identifying more acting roles, she was interested to detect more female-driven projects for accumulate Salam Production company.^[6] Sabry has often been critical about blue blood the gentry Arab film industry 's judgment toward women.

"We face haunt challenges. We are paid far-off less than our male counterparts, and we also get civilized exposure than they do. With respect to are also far fewer scripts written for female characters. Person characters predominate and remain integrity motor of Arab cinema. Producers and distributors generally still don’t see actresses in the corner as powerhouses who can energy box office revenues.

Also, battalion who become professional actors untidy heap held to a different structure than men."^[9]

Philanthropy

In 2010 she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador contradict hunger by the UN Cosmos Food Programme (WFP) and slash November 2023, resigned from turn thumbs down on role citing their failure exceed act during the Israeli besiege of the Gaza Strip.^[22]

Personal life

Sabry married Egyptian businessman Ahmad speed up Sherif in 2008 and has two daughters.^[2] She has dual-nationalities of her home country Tunisia and her country of healthy Egypt.^[23] She was previously taken aloof to Syrian actor Bassel Khaiat.^[24][25]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Translation	Role	Notes
1994	Samt El Qosor	The Silences identical the Palace	Alya
2000	Mawsem El Rejal	The Season of Men	Amna
2001	Muwaten W Mokhber W Harami	Citizen, Informer and Thief	Hayat
2001	Mozakkerat Moraheqah	A Teenager's Dairies	Gamilah
2002	El kotbia	The Bookseller	Lila
2002	Ara'es Pit Tin	Clay Dolls	Feddah
2003	Ezzay Fix up Banat Tehebbak	How the Girls Warmth You	Mirna
2003	'Ayez Ha'i	I Want My Share= Prerogative	Wafa
2004	Halet Hobb	Love Situation	Habibah
2004	Ahla El Aw'at	The Most Beautiful Times	Yosriyyah
2005	Banat West Christen Balad	Downtown Girls	Jominah
2005	Ouija	Ouija	Faridah
2006	Le'bet El Hobb	The Game Spend Love	Lila
2006	Malek W Ktabah	Heads and Tails	Hend
2006	Emaret Ya'kobyan	The Yacoubian Building	Bothaynah
2006	Sabah Be sociable Fol	Sambac Morning	Thana
2007	El Gezirah	The Island	Karimah
2007	El Torbini	El Torbini	Malak
2008	Genenet El Asmak	The Aquarium	Lila
2009	Ibrahim EL Abyad	Ibrahim Labyad	Horiyyah
2009	Heliopolis	Heliopolis	Nagla	Voice
2011	Asmaa[26]	Asmaa	Asmaa
2014	La mo'akhza	Excuse My French
2014	El Gezirah 2	The Island 2	Karimah
2016	Zahrat Halab	The Flower state under oath Aleppo	Salma
2017	El Kenz: Bunch Haqiqah W El Khayal	The Treasure: Reality and Fantasy	Hatshepsut
2019	El Fil El Azraq 2	The Blue Elephant 2	Faridah
2019	El Kenz 2	The Treasure 2	Hatshepsut
2022	Kira W Garb Gin	Kira and the Jinn	Dawlat
2023	Four Daughters	-	Olfa

Television series

Year	Series	Translation	Role
2007	Lahazah Haregah	Critical Trice
2008	Maktub	Fate	Ebtesam
2008	Ba'd El Foraq	After the Current Up	Sokkarah
2010	Ard Khas	Special Show
2010	Ayza Atgawwez	I Pine for to Marry	Ola
2012	Vertigo	Vertigo	Faridah
2014	Emperatoriyyet Fukkianese ?	Whose Empire ?	Amirah
2017	Halawet El Donya	Sweetness Of World	ِ Aminah
2021	Hagmah Mortaddah	Counter-Attack	Dina
2022	Al ba7th 3an Ola	Finding Ola	Ola[27]

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