Thuraya Helmy

Known for ActingBorn 1923-09-26Died 1994-08-09Egypt

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Believing in God

Hokm Elqawi

Owner of Few Piasters

The Two Orphans

Casino el latafa

The Fifth Groom

Wives factory

El Zuhur El Fatina

Saedat El Rigal

Ismail Yassine Meets Raya and Sekina

The Bread Seller

Your luck this week

Love In The Darkness

Laylat Al-Jumea

Good News

Meeting at the Tower

Shahr aleasal

Farewell, Love

Elsetat Afaret

If I Was Rich

The Hunger

He and She Stories

Banat Al-Lail

Halal Aleik

Ana bint Nass

I Love You Only

Long live women!

The Life of Darkness

Love Has No Cure

My Wife's Dignity

The Black Market

Who's Done it ?

Alley of The Pestle

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

2 Against the law

عفريت لكل مواطن

The Barefoot Millionaire

Uncle Qandil's Scissors

The Widow and The Devil

Foreign Talk

Ma'a Khalis Tahiyaty

Dalal Al-Masria

Dreams Inn

The Beggars' Strike

Lokanda Alfardos

Festival of love

Kilo 99

Tar Bayet