Souhir Fakhry

Souhir Fakhry ✨

Egyptian Actress

📅 Born: August 17, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt

✝️ Died: September 25, 2018 (age 75) – Cairo, Egypt

🇪🇬 Nationality: Egyptian

💍 Spouse: Mohamed Kamel Hassan (Writer & Screenwriter)

🎭 Profession: Film & Television Actress

🗣 Language: Arabic

🎬 Career & Life

Started acting as a child in the film Kholoud (1948), directed by Ezz El-Din Zulficar.

Took a 13-year break from acting before returning in the film Summer Vacation (1966).

After the 1967 War, she resumed her career in films such as:

🎥 The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1968) – with Magda & Kamal El-Shennawy

🎥 A Tailor for Ladies (1969) – with Shadia & Duraid Lahham

🎥 The Choice (1971) – with Soad Hosny

🎥 Men Without Features (1972) – with Salah Zulfikar & Nadia Lotfy

She did not achieve the same level of success and ultimately retired permanently.

💔 Her Tragic Marriage Story

📖 She married screenwriter Mohamed Kamel Hassan, but the secretary of Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, named Abdel Moneim Abou Zeid, fell in love with her and wanted to marry her.

🔗 When her husband refused to divorce her, he was arrested and forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital!

⚖️ Souhir was forced to file for divorce, which eventually happened, and she then married the Marshal’s secretary.

✈️ Her ex-husband was later banished to Lebanon and then Kuwait, and psychiatric treatment bills under his name were found among the Marshal’s secret documents after his suicide.

📜 Notable Works

📺 TV Series:

The Night and the Plains (1981) – Mervat

Al-Khamasin (1972)

The Treasure (1969) – Fatima

Wahawy Ya Wahawy (1969) – TV Fawazir (Riddles)

🎭 Films:

The Choice (1971) – with Soad Hosny

Forbidden Love (1971) – Zizi

Men Without Features (1970) – Amina Shaker

The End of the Devils (1970)

A Tailor for Ladies (1969) – Nawal

The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1968) – Souad

Summer Vacation (1966) – Hala

Kholoud (1948) – Little Amal

🕊 She passed away on September 25, 2018, leaving behind a career that started early and ended too soon.