Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1923-09-26
Day of Death
1994-08-09
Place of Birth
Egypt
Thuraya Helmy
Biography
Egyptian actress and singer, whose real name is (Zakia Ali Mahjoub), and Mustafa Al-Qashash, a journalist in Al-Sabah magazine, chose her artistic name by which she was known. She excelled in the art of monologue. She was born in an artistic family where her sister was a singer. She used to go to the theater and go up to the stage between the seasons and offer singing connections, and from here she started the art of monologue, and continued that from 1940 until 1966. During her artistic career, she presented more than 300 monologues of the most famous of them (Addini Your Mind, O Sidi Eib), in addition to Her participation in acting in many films, she even formed a cinematic duo with the comedian Ismail Yassin, and joined the band (Baba Ezz El-Din). Among her most prominent works is (Ismail Yassin interviews Rayya and Sakina, the male hunter). She passed away in 1994.
Filmography (53)
2 Against the law
1992
عفريت لكل مواطن
1988
The Barefoot Millionaire
1987
The Hunger
1986
Uncle Qandil's Scissors
1985
The Widow and The Devil
1984
Foreign Talk
1984
Dalal Al-Masria
1970
Dreams Inn
1970
My Wife's Dignity
1967
The Beggars' Strike
1967
Lokanda Alfardos
1964
Alley of The Pestle
1963
Meeting at the Tower
1962
