Jala Fahmi(1962-2022)

Jala Graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Literature section. She comes from an artistic family, her father Ashraf Fahmy is one the most well known Egyptian directors. Jala showed great interest in cinema ever since she was young, she even acted at school when she made her first performance in Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations", but strangely she starred as Pip, not as Estella! She started her career in 1988,with a kind of stand up comedy, a ten minute daily program on the Egyptian National TV. This program proved to be a success, it was written by Youssef Auf, one of the biggest comedian writers in the Arab World. Her performance was dazzling, amongst classical TV presenters. The program was a great hit and Jala's breakthrough performance attracted offers to act in cinema. Jala made a variety of roles in comedy and melodrama but she finds herself in comedian roles because comedian actresses are rare now.