He is one of the members of Ghobn family, born in Sharqia Governorate. His father is artist Abdel Fattah Ghobn. He works in the field of acting and directing, and has participated with his Polish wife in introducing Polish culture to Egypt and the Arab world, as he, with the help of his wife, translated the works of a group of Polish writers and poets who won Nobel Prizes, such Henryk Sienkiewicz. In the fifties, he participated in some films when he was a student, then he stopped acting for many years, then returned to acting in the early third millennium. His films include Cairo Station, and The Son of Al-Onsol.
