Lesser-known Facts about Late Nour El-Sherif on His Birthday Anniversary

Today, April. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of renowned Egyptian actor Nour El-Sherif.

Also in this regard, Egyptian and Arab audiences are celebrating the birthday occasion of El-Sherif, the great icon of Egyptian cinema.

El-Sherif was born in 1946 in El-Sayeda Zeinab, the popular Cairo district, and switching his career path from playing football for Zamalek Club to studying at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts to satisfy his love of acting.

Late Egyptian actor El-Sherif, born as Mohamed Geber Abd Allah, is known for appearing in over 200 films and acting over 50 series. The actor was also awarded the Cairo Arab Media Festival three times (in 1999, 2001and 2002), Cairo International Film Festival, and Dubai International Film Festival Award during his career, which spanned over four decades.

Google Doodle honored El-Sherif on Wednesday, on the occasion of his 75th birth anniversary.

Notably, the doodle appears on the search engine's homepage in several countries around the Middle East region and North Africa.

El-Sherif, who passed away on 11 August 2015, can’t be viewed as an actor who only succeeded in playing romantic and oppressed characters in Egyptian cinema.

For instance, he acquired an academic qualification and broad artistic culture that helped him more than the others in making good choices and enhancing his performance altogether.

After graduation, he met director Hassan Iman, who was about to shoot 'Kasr El Shawk' (The Palace of Desire) (1967) and decided to cast the young handsome man in this film since he believed in his talent.

The remarkable actor was endowed with a special style of performing these kinds of roles that distinguished him from those who made such roles their specialty to the extent that he became the founder of an acting technique emulated by others.

His big breakthrough was in the late 1960s when he performed a supporting role in “The Palace of Desire,” the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

After that, the remarkable star became one of the Egyptian and Arab world’s top male actors for much of the 1970s and 1980s in the heydays of Egyptian cinema.

Moreover,  El-Sherif is well-known for some of his seminal works, such as (The Wife and the Dog) (Desire),(The Baby Doll Night), (The Yacoubian Building), (I Won't Live in My Father's Robes), (Bloody Sunday), 'El-Hag Metwali's Family' and 'Kasr El Shawk'.

In 1972, the prominent actor was married to Egypt's beautiful actress Poussi and together they had two daughters, Sarah and Mai.

Unfortunately, the pressures of the media and a long-distance relationship caused them to split up in 2006. They, however, decided to get back together in early 2015 during the difficulty of his illness.

Days later, the veteran actor and theater director died aged 69 after a long struggle with lung cancer.

Even over seven years after his death, El-Sherif is still considered by many audiences to be the best actor in the history of Egyptian cinema.