
Soheir El Morshedy
Acting
Biography
Soheir El Morshedy is an Egyptian actress. She was born in 1946 in the city of Tanta, and then moved with her family to Cairo. Her acting talent started showing up during high school, and she then went on to study acting and directing at the High Institute of Theatrical Arts, and started her professional career in the late 1960s, through small roles in films like "El Bostagy" (The Postman), and she rose to prominence in the 1970's, and began to get cast in her most notable major roles in films like "Banat fel Gamaa" (Girls In University), "Awdet Al-Ibn Al-Dal" (The Return of the Prodigal Son). She is also best known for her television work, which includes roles in "Arabesque" and "Layaly Elhelmeyya" (Elhelmeyya Nights).
Known For

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
Layali El-Helmeya

Bwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Bwabet Elhalwani

An Egyptian doctor becomes a police informant and uses his rare gift of tracking ancient artifacts in the smuggling business.
Tayee

The series follows the life of Hassan, an old chivalrous Arabesque workshop owner who lives in a poor neighborhood with his family. The series provides an insight into the day-to-day struggles of the family as Hassan gets involved in much of their neighbors' disputes and affairs.
Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany

After Jaber travels from Upper Egypt to Cairo because of revenge, fate throws him in the path of Mohra, the struggling woman who is raising her two brothers, and a love story arises between them, through which they challenge their difficult circumstances.
Darb Naar

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Return of the Prodigal Son

Hamza is a small employee who works as a collector and is characterized by his honesty, and finds himself in a predicament he was not waiting for, when some thieves hid an amount of money they stole from a rich man in his bag, while the police were chasing them, and after escaping from the police, they searched for Hamza and chased him without knowing in order to get them back. The money they stashed.
Shantat Hamza

Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car accident, combines the playboy teacher Hani who was transferred to Salloum as punishment for his disrespect and misconduct. Their meeting on the Salloum beach, while each meets a different model of human beings in the workplace, Hani meets Saidi Bakri fleeing revenge, and meet the hope of doctor Tariq, who tries to harass them and exploit their unity, will love develop and grow amid this intertwined conditions?
The People Inside

Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.
Cairo 30

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جواري بلا قيود

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tries to set him on the right path which sets off problems between them. When they get divorced, a repentant Mukhtar tries to get Annan back.
El Khouroug Min El Guana

A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, whom she has been in love for years, but she's interrupted by the arrival of Hassan's wife Amina.
The Rain Has Gone Dry

Three young fresh graduates who cannot adapt to their society and feel alienated, (Kamal) the young scientist who does not adapt with the few possibilities to do research that benefit his country, (Mustafa) the young man concerned with the issues of the country who collides with the opinions of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in which he works as a journalist, (Nabil) In front of him, manifestations of corruption and embezzlement continue in the hospital in which he works, and he is unable to do anything, so they feel despair, and he decides to emigrate.
Meet

A Basha is furious when he learns that his son Zaki had an affair with his cousin Hosnia, he also knows that she's pregnant. He makes her marry Ibrahim, one of the peasants working in his land, who rejoices at first but after the sixth month of his marriage, he finds Hosnia giving birth to a child.
يا رب توبة

Hamouda is a porter at the port who tries to establish a union for the port workers. As those who exploit the workers oppose him, they frame him for a crime and send him to jail. When he is released, he finds his fiancée Nousa waiting for him.
The Troublemaker

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موعد مع الوحوش

The story revolves around a couple who separate from each other despite the strong love story that brought them together. They deposit their only son in a boarding school, and the parents visit him at school every week, alternating between them. One day, Alaa goes out and does not find his father waiting for him as usual. A gang kidnaps him from in front of the school. The parents report the incident to the police and search for their kidnapped son.
And Life Is Back

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college
College Girls

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
The Second Wife

Nawara marries Dardiry who finds out on his wedding night that he is impotent due to an accident he had when he was a child. When No'man, who has been in love with Nawara since childhood, appears, a series of problems follow in his wake.