Thuraya Fakhry
Acting
Biography
An Egyptian actress of Lebanese origin. She was born in Zahle, Lebanon, to a middle-class family, as her father worked in the textile trade. She had the opportunity to receive some education, and as a child she was an actress, successfully playing the role of the mother in school parties. After completing her primary education, she joined one of the troupes that were widespread in Lebanon. She came to Egypt at the age of 25 with her father, who had liquidated his business in Lebanon and wanted to try his luck in Egypt. She and her father lived in Alexandria and joined Ali Al-Kassar's troupe. She continued acting, performing in approximately 32 plays with various theatrical troupes. She was famous for playing the role of the mother, but she also played the role of the elegant lady. Her features helped her stand out, and she also had a laugh with a special tone.
Born: August 3, 1905
Place of Birth: Zahle - Lebanon
Known For
The Avenger
Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner. When the girl chooses one, the other gets jealous and ploys a scheme that aggravates and leads to a great explosion and an even greater tragedy.
El Zuhur El Fatina
Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of her sick mother and pays home bills.
Appointment with Happiness
Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich man, he rapes her while drunk. Ehsan discovers that she is pregnant and escapes to Cairo where she gives birth to her daughter
Between Heaven and Earth
In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.
Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors
Othman Abdelbaset suffers from the intervention of his mother-in-law in his life with his wife. He always worries about his assistants in the pancake shop he runs until his mother-in-law succeeds in cutting him off with his wife and turning his life into hell. He thinks of committing suicide and introduces his idea to his aides. The three go to sea to carry out the idea, but one of the sailors sees them leading the boat trip to one of the islands and they are on an adventure inside the Prince of the Island where they fight the bad guys who want to take over the island rule
A Day of My Life
An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
Dearer Than My Eyes
A fire cause deform a young man's face causing his fiancee to aversion him and leave him ; then he meets a blind girl and create an admiration between them but he afraid if she regains her sight leave him like his former fiancee
Lovers' Call
Beautiful dancer Warda finds herself homeless. She finds a job at a cotton ginning plant. She loves Abdo who runs the plant, and she kills the elderly Shahawi, the plant owner who wanted to assault her and runs away with Abdo, while Metwally, the owner's son chases them.
The Beginning and the End
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
Women Can’t Lie
A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris
Filmography
as Umm Ali
as Esther - Sarina's mother
as طيفه هانم
as الداده
as رسمية هانم
as شغالة فى منزل شريف
as Halima
as Mabrouka
as الخاطبه
as أم ناهد
as رضية زوجة عباس
as Farida
as دادة أم الخير
as Umm Mohamed
as الداده
as أم الهنا
as ام حسام
as sayed's mother
as قوت القلوب
as والدة فؤاد
as الدادا
as rashad's mother
as أم عمر
as آسمة
as Umm Nawal
as الدادة
as Buthaina's mother
as الدادة
as Umm Hamed
as أم فاطمة
as Halima
as Nono's mother
as Um Yanni
as Umm Nabawiya
as Tafida's aunt
as زوجة حسنين خال سعدية
as Inayat Hanem
as Fathia's aunt
as Umm Munira
as Inayat Hanem
as Zahira Hanem
as تفيده
as Umm Afaf
as نفيسة
as Umm Nabeeh
as Salwa's mother
as أم علي
as أم علي جارة الخدامة رقية
as الأم
as أم حمدى
as Dada Amina
as Umm Samira Hanem
as Umm Alia
as أم محمود
as مباركة
as مديرة ملجأ الاطفال
as الدادة
as Nabwiya Hanim
as مديرة المدرسة
as عليّة - خادمة بهيره هانم
as عائشة هانم
as ستيته - والدة عزيز
as Princess Salma's bridesmaid
as أم محمد
as رئيسة الجمعية