Nahed Sherif
Nahed Sherif was an Egyptian actress who came to prominence in Egyptian and Lebanese films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Born Samiha Zaki El-Nial in Beni Suef Governorate in Upper Egypt and a Lycée Français du Caire dropout, she was discovered by director Hussein Helmy El-Mohandess and made her debut in 1958.In 1961, she married El-Mohandess and he directed two films offering her starring roles opposite Egyptian Cinema's box-office mogul Salah Zulfikar in the romance, A [Storm of Love], Me and my Daughters, earning commercial success for both films. Her marriage with El-Mohandess lasted for a brief period and she later married fellow actor Kamal El-Shennawi. While married to El-Shennawy, she was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the third time in Virgo and for the fourth time in the crime-thriller The Killers, both films were box-office hits.
After divorce with El-Shennawi, Sherif moved to Lebanon and made her Lebanese film debut with 1973 action film Kuwait Connection directed by Sami A. Khouri who reached fame with The Lady of [the Black Moons]. She later starred in a number of other Lebanese films and married Lebanese Armenian Edward Gergian. She was paired with Salah Zulfikar for the fifth and last time in the crime film; Desire and Price, a commercial hit released in 1978. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 1970s and died in 1981.