Farid Shawki

Farid Shawqi Mohammad Abduh Badawi known as Farid Shawqi was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer. He acted in 361 films,plays andtelevision series wrotefilm scripts and producedfilms,He is considered to be one of the greatest actors in the middle east.

Film producers and financiers called Shawqi Malek elTerso or the King of the Third Class . Shawqi was born in July 1920 in El Baghghala neighborhood of Cairos popular quarter of AlSayyedah Zynab, where the majority of residents were the terso film goers when Egyptian cinema started turning into a big industry. Shawqi worked as a civil servant as the Second World War broke out. He was given small parts in Ramsis Theatre group headed by Youssef Bay Wahby, then he worked with Anwar Wagdy doing small parts on the silver screen. He also formed a local theatre group The National League of Acting which included his young wife actress Zainab AbdelHady whom he married in 1941, they had one daughter Mona. They were divorced four years later, when he married his second wife, dancer Saneya Shawqi, whom he also divorced in 1950.

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