Laila Sabongi

Laila Sabongi

📆 Date of Birth: February 22, 1941

🕯 Date of Death: December 25, 2002 (Age 61)

🏳 Nationality: Egypt

🎭 Profession: Actress

📌 Early Life and Career

She started her artistic career as a child through 📻 Egyptian radio, participating in the famous children's program Baba Sharo.

She traveled to 🇸🇪 Sweden, where she 📖 studied theater and got married before returning to Egypt in 1967.

✈ Worked in an airline company for a period before rejoining Egyptian radio.

She joined 🎭 Al-Tali’a Theater and 🎭 Comedy Theater, participating in many theatrical and television productions.

She was known for her comedic and caricature-like performances and mastered 🗣 Classical Arabic.

🎬 Notable Works

📺 TV Series:

✅ Yawmiyat Wanis (Season 2) – 1995

✅ Layali Al-Helmeya (Season 5) – 1995

✅ Dameer Aabla Hekmat – 1991

✅ Arabesque: Ayyam Hassan Al-Numani – 1994

🎞 Films:

🎥 Maw’ed Ala Al-Ashaa (Dinner Date) – 1981

🎥 Ashyaa Ded Al-Qanoun (Things Against the Law) – 1982

🎥 Al-Qubtan (The Captain) – 1997

🎥 Al-Sharisa (The Fierce Woman) – 1993

🎭 Theater Plays:

🎭 Don Quixote

🎭 Merry Wives

🎭 Accident on the Road

📻 Radio Series:

🎙 She performed in 28 radio productions.

🚨 A Famous Incident

📍 While filming Sawwaq Al-Hanim (The Lady’s Chauffeur) in 1993, Laila Sabongi was the first to inform actor 🔴 Ahmed Zaki about the death of his ex-wife Hala Fouad.

📢 She shouted:

"Ahmed, my condolences, Hala has passed away!"

😭 This shocked Zaki, who burst into tears and attempted to jump from the building where he was filming.

🕯 Death

📆 She passed away on December 25, 2002, at the age of 61, leaving behind 📜 a legacy of 96 works in theater, radio, television, and cinema.