Hend Sabry to Star in Netflix's New Original Series

Tunisian beloved actress Hend Sabry will star and produce Netflix's latest Arabic original series.

The project, currently untitled, will witness Sabry's first experience as an executive producer, which arrives through her salam production company.

The director of the series expressed his excitement on working with Sabry, one of the Arab world’s most iconic actresses.

"The series is a female-focused story that we are sure fans will connect with,” Sharkawi said.

Talking about her upcoming project, Sabry stated that she was excited to be working on a female-focused show, with Netflix as well as thrilled about her first experience as an executive producer.

"I am also thrilled about how with Netflix we can create content that features stories from the Arab world and to be seen by the world,” she added.

The series is slated to begin production in Egypt this fall, which is set to be premiered on Netflix in 2021.

The Tunisian actress, born on November 20, 1979, made her acting debut at the age of fourteen in Moufida Tlatli’s 1994 Tunisian movie “Samt al Qosoor” (Silence of the Palaces).

The movie was selected after 19 years from its debut in Dubai International Film Festival’s “100 Most Important Arab Films” list.

Following “Samt al Qosoor”, Sabry starred in several Tunisian productions until caught the attention of director Egyptian director Inas Al Degheidy who introduced her in 2002 to the Egyptian cinema through movie “Muzakirat Murahiqua” (A Teenager’s Diary).

Sabry’s role in the film gave her immediate stardom across the Arab world and paved her way to more films in the Egyptian cinema as well as highlighted her talents as a professional actress, and she became soon one of the most prominent Tunisian actresses in Egypt and the Arab world.

The actress had also starred in many remarkable Egyptian films including, “Mowaten we Mokhber we Haramy” (A Citizen, a Detective, and a Thief), “Banat West El Balad” (Downtown Girls) “Ibrahim El Abyad”, and “Oumaret Yacoubian”, (The Yacoubian Building).

Sabry received more than 25 awards in appreciation of her achievements as an actress including five awards for her astounding embodiment of an HIV positive woman who suffers because of her affliction from her society in the 2011 film “Asmaa”.