Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

male, 49 years old
Genie Award winner for Best Original Screenplay, immigrant to Canada, Genie Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Egyptian, From toronto, Order of Canada…borninCairo, Egypt
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and...
Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively

female, 76 years old
obe, Carnegie Medal, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Literature, Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford, Whitbread Book Awards…A Stitch in Time, born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her childhood there, borninCairo, Egypt
Penelope Lively CBE (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has...
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

male, deceased (2006)
Islam-related controversy, existentialism, Cairo University alumni, Nobel Prize for Literature, Egyptian, religious persecution…Nobel laureate in Literature, University of Cairo, Cairo Trilogy, borninCairo, Egypt, has no counterpart in any other part of the world
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Ar...
Alan Whicker

Alan Whicker

male, 88 years old
Television presenter, Old Haberdasher, English, British Army soldier, British, Yorkshire Television…borninCairo, Egypt
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born August 2, 1921, Cairo, Egypt) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes

male, 60 years old
Old Amplefordian, Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Ampleforth College, aristocracy, BBC One, Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge…Our Friends in the North, borninCairo, Egypt
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, commonly known as Julian Fellowes, (born August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt) was an actor for over twenty years...
Goffredo Alessandrini

Goffredo Alessandrini

male, deceased (1978)
film director, From cairo, Italian, Screenwriter, actor, writer…borninCairo, Egypt
Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italian script writer and film director. He also did act, edit and produce some films.
Nicola Pagett

Nicola Pagett

female, 64 years old
Oliver's Story, The Viking Queen, Ain't Misbehavin', Upstairs, Downstairs, A Bit of a Do, What the Butler Saw…There's a Girl in My Soup actress, borninCairo, Egypt
Nicola Pagett (born 15 June 1945) is an English actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the highly acclaimed 1970s television drama...
Hussein Fahmy

Hussein Fahmy

male, 69 years old
special olympics, Egyptian, AlSafwa, Egyptian TV, Alnas wa Ana, Mustafa Fahmy…Cairo Movie Festival, borninCairo, Egypt
Hussein Fahmy born in 1940 in Cairo, Egypt. He is the brother of actor Mustafa Fahmy. A leading movie star and the first UNDP Goodwill Ambassador...
Nabila Ebeid

Nabila Ebeid

female, 64 years old
Egyptian, Nabila Obeid, Al 'Ammah Nour, Rabeaa Al Aadawya, Ma Fish Ghir Kidah, ramadan…borninCairo, Egypt
Nabila Ebeid, also spelled Nabila Obeid, is an Egyptian actress. She started her career in the early 1960s. Her first feature film was the...
Mido Hamada

Mido Hamada

male
Ahmed Shah Massoud, German, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Situation, The Path to 9/11, actor…borninCairo, Egypt
Mido Hamada is a German-Egyptian actor having played roles in film, theater and television. Hamada attended the Oxford School of Drama. He lives in...