Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

Acting · Directing · Writing

Народився 18 лютого 1961, Cairo, Egypt

Zaki Abdel Wahab (February 18, 1961 - March 20, 2022) was an Egyptian actor and film director. He was the son of renowned Egyptian singer Laila Mourad and director Fatin Abdel Wahab. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema in 1983. Abdel Wahab worked as a second assistant director in the movie People on the Top (1981) and as an assistant director in many of Youssef Chahine's films, including The Sixth Day (1986), in which he made his debut as an actor. He also acted in Alexandria Again and Forever (1989), I Love Cinema (2004), and starred in Yousry Nasrallah's Mercedes (1993). In 1996, Zaki directed his feature film Romantica, which was a biography of his life. He was the location manager of American films and miniseries shot in Egypt such as Mysteries of Egypt (1998) and The Mummy Returns (2001). Zaki married actress Soad Hosny in 1981 after she separated from the film director Ali Badrakhan. However, they separated after only a few months of marriage, and he stated in more than one interview that the reason was his mother's opposition. He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer.

Фільмографія

• 2022The Spider
• Bayn El Samaa W El Ard — Zakaria
• COVID-25 — Salah Saeed
• The End — Head Commander
• Ayoub
• Ayoub — Baheer Rasheed
• Karma's Curse
• Rahim
• Between Two Worlds
• 2017Cactus Flower — Mourad Helmy
• 2017No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed — لطيف - زوج ثريا
• The Flood — Helmy
• The Sun Will Never Set
• Above Suspicion
• Birth Certificate — اللواء جلال ضياء الدين
• Red Sulfur
• 2016Sins of the Flesh — مراد
• 2016Suicidal Notions
• Esteefa — ماجد رستم
• Adam's Apple
• 2014Hadeed
• On Tipping Point
• Temporary Name
• The Oracle
• The Second Wife
• Taraf Talet — الشيمي
• The Thug — الباشا رضوا
• Third party — Actor's Assistant
• 2011A Whole One — أياد
• Citizen X
• 2011El Fagommi
• Shubra Rotation
• Soft Life
• The People of Cairo
• 2004I Love Cinema
• 2003Violence and Sarcasm
• 2001Silence... We're Rolling
• 1999The City — The Director / Tifa
• 1996Romantica — Writer, Director
• 1993Mercedes — Nubi
• 1989Alexandria Again and Forever — Guindi
• 1988Summer Thefts — Pasha
• 1986The Sixth Day — Assistant Director
• 1984Streets of Fire — Assistant Director