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Acting

Thuraya Helmy

Born
Sep 26, 1923 · Aged 70
Died
Aug 9, 1994
Place of birth
Egypt
Gender
Female
Movie credits
54
TV credits
2
Also known as (2)
  • Souraya Helmy
  • Thoraya 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),…