Omar Sharif

Name: Omar Sharif
Date of Birth: April 10, 1932
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt

Mini-bio: Omar Sharif, the Franco-Arabic actor best known for playing Sharif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in A...( read more)lexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire. Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and too a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business.
Before making his English-language film debut with "Lawrence of Arabia", for which he earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. His first movie was the Egyptian film _Siraa Fil-Wadi (1954) ("The Blazing Sun") in 1953, opposite the renowned Egyptian actress 'Faten Hamamain'whom he married in 1955. He converted to Islam to marry Hamamain and took the name Omar al-Sharif. The couple had one child (Tarek Sharif, who was born in 1957 and portrayed the young Zhivago in the eponymous picture) and divorced in 1974. Sharif never remarried.
Beginning in the 1960s, Sharif earned a reputation as one of the world's best known contract bridge players. In the 1970s and '80s, he co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune. Sharif also wrote several books on bridge and has licensed his name to a bridge computer game, "Omar Sharif Bridge", which has been marketed since 1992.
Sharif told the press in 2006 that he no longer played bridge, explaining, "I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time."
As an actor, Sharif had made a comeback in 2003 playing the title role of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003). For his performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actor César, Frane's equivalent of the Oscar, from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.

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Omar Sharif mini-bio: Omar Sharif, the Franco-Arabic actor best known for playing Sharif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire. Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and too a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business.
Before making his English-language film debut with "Lawrence of Arabia", for which he earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. His first movie was the Egyptian film _Siraa Fil-Wadi (1954) ("The Blazing Sun") in 1953, opposite the renowned Egyptian actress 'Faten Hamamain'whom he married in 1955. He converted to Islam to marry Hamamain and took the name Omar al-Sharif. The couple had one child (Tarek Sharif, who was born in 1957 and portrayed the young Zhivago in the eponymous picture) and divorced in 1974. Sharif never remarried.
Beginning in the 1960s, Sharif earned a reputation as one of the world's best known contract bridge players. In the 1970s and '80s, he co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune. Sharif also wrote several books on bridge and has licensed his name to a bridge computer game, "Omar Sharif Bridge", which has been marketed since 1992.
Sharif told the press in 2006 that he no longer played bridge, explaining, "I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time."
As an actor, Sharif had made a comeback in 2003 playing the title role of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003). For his performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actor César, Frane's equivalent of the Oscar, from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.

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posted 509 days ago
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has been awarded a grant famous artists Arab world recognition of the tender cinema during the past years, Haz, also in the same year, Cesar Award best representative, also called the Golden Balasd his role in the film Ibrahim and the flowers of the Quran, directed by Francois Dupeyron .........shrif_elnagar@yahoo.com

posted 525 days ago
STORIESEGYPT

Panther strikes again The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976. The Omar Sharif representation Comedienne roles in the movie including a Top Secret in 1984, and then moved away from artistic scene and simply assuming in programs and serials and evenings and guest of honor, which helps appeared for a few minutes in any film success as in the movie The 13 Warrior 1999, As also appeared in many television films. During his absence from Egypt was not dependent on work in radio serials Egyptian including three eyes and nose and lost love, and after filing by the world spotlight returned to Egypt in the 1990s and offloaded for public action. Renowned Omar Sharif in his movies, foreign mania men Pacific and the mysterious and Latif and tempting for women, while as in all his movies Arab dignitaries comics and serious roles and romantic and classical. Omar Sharif won many awards in the 1962 Oscar nominated for the prize on the role of assistant in the film Lawrence of the Arabs, and this year 2004

posted 525 days ago
STORIESEGYPT

Omar Sharif was born in April (April) 1932 in Alexandria, and the father was a merchant rich in timber, and studied at the School of Victoria, and was a colleague of the director Youssef Chahine World .. Real name, «Michel Shalhoub». Love theater school, and the many experiences, and age did not exceed twelve spring, the beginning of cinema, when he met the director Youssef Chahine, who learned the story of a grain of representation, and in the starring role before Faten Hamama in the movie "conflict in the Valley" and after the film conflict in the valley suffered a lot from the Libyan and then became Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama bilateral Hand was not reflected in the work of only one and the other with him, In 1958 he married Sharif Faten Hamama which bore him Tariq, yet the film that brought them together, no more than 5 movies over Mchuarahma artistic and extended the order is : "conflict in the Valley" in 1954 and "conflict in the port" in 1956 and "sleep" in 1957 and "Lady of the Palace" in 1958 and another Aflamama together, "River of Love" in 1960. In the early 1960s he met David Lin way out World, which was detected in many of his films, yet universal preoccupation Omar started neglecting his wife and his home, which led to Arthur Faten Hamama in the early 1960s. After unprecedented success in his first film Doctor Zhivago met Libyan great fame and the entire Western world has followed his movies, Omar continued with the same director David Lean to play several roles in several films including the film The Yellow Rolls Royce and Lawrence Arabs film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 and the movie snow Green Green Ice, and many others in the following years. In the 1970s, he played the movie The Last Valley 1971, Two seeds and switch The Tamarind Seed and film Jaggernaut 1974, but did not convergence due to the anticipated success in the West away from it romantic films and then appeared Say has been forced to represent roles such as assisting role in the film Pink

posted 525 days ago
italyno

hello omar sharif ....i like more ....and u know i look like u ...? im proud of that ...

posted 565 days ago
mahmoudothman

Our egyptian hero

posted 609 days ago
blooona

good actor

posted 623 days ago