Nahed Sherif
{{Short description|Egyptian actress (1942–1981)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nahed Sherif
| image = Nahed_Sherif_in_Love_&_Money.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Nahed Sherif in Hassan El-Imam's Love and Money (1969)
| birthname = Samiha Zaki El-Nial
| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|01|01}}
| birth_place = Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|04|07|1942|01|01}}
| death_place = Cairo, Egypt
| yearsactive = 1958–1980
| othername =
| spouse = Hussein Helmy El-Mohandess
Kamal el-Shennawi
Edward Gergian
| children = Patricia Gergian
| homepage =
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Nahed Sherif ({{langx|ar|ناهد شريف}}), (1 January 1942 – 7 April 1981) was an Egyptian actress who came to prominence in Egyptian and Lebanese films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Born Samiha Zaki El-Nial ({{lang|ar|سميحة زكي النيال}}) and a Lycée Français du Caire dropout, she was discovered by director Hussein Helmy El-Mohandess and made her debut in 1958.[http://www.elcinema.com/person/pr1035415/ Nahied Sherif] at ElCinema In 1961, she married El-Mohandess and he directed two films offering her starring roles opposite Egyptian Cinema's box-office mogul Salah Zulfikar in the romance, A Storm of Love (عاصفة من الحب), Me and my Daughters (أنا وبناتي), earning commercial success for both films. Her marriage with El-Mohandess lasted for a brief period and she later married fellow actor Kamal El-Shennawi.
File:SZ&NS.jpg in Desire and Price (1978)]]
While married to El-Shennawy, she was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the third time in Virgo (برج العذراء) and for the fourth time in the crime-thriller The Killers (القتلة), both films were box-office hits. After divorce with El-Shennawi, Sherif moved to Lebanon and made her Lebanese film debut with 1973 action film Kuwait Connection (ذئاب لا تأكل اللحم) directed by Sami A. Khouri who reached fame with The Lady of the Black Moons. She later starred in a number of other Lebanese films and married Lebanese Armenian Edward Gergian. She was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the fifth and last time in the crime film; Desire and Price (الرغبة والثمن), a commercial hit released in 1978. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 1970s and died in 1981.
References
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External links
- [https://elcinema.com/en/person/1035415 Nahied Sherif] at ElCinema
- {{IMDb name|0792285}}
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Category:Egyptian film actresses
Category:Actresses from Alexandria
Category:20th-century Egyptian actresses
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