Farouq Al Fishawy

Born: 1952-02-05

Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt

Biography

Farouk is an Egyptian theatre, cinema and TV actor. Graduate of both the faculty of Arts and the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. His booming in TV series “Abnaa’y al-a’ezzaa shokran i.e. My dear children..thank you” and his role in “Al-mashbooh i.e. The suspect” with Aadel Emaam, paved his way to stardom. Among his popular TV series are: “Alf leila we leila i.e. One thousand and one Nights ”, “Al-haawy i.e. The magician”, “’Aly al-Zeibaq”, “Domou’ saahebat algalaala i.e. Her majesty’s tears”, “Laylat al-kabd ‘ala Fatma i.e. The night Fatma was arrested”, “Zeynaat wal-talat banaat i.e. Zeynat and the three daughters”, “Canaria wa shorakah i.e. Canaria and Co.”. Among his stage plays are: “Al-dokhaan i.e. Smoke”, “Tharthara fawk al-neel i.e. A Drift on the Nile”and “Bedaaya wa nehaaya i.e. The Beginning and the End”. His career included king Farouk and beggers and a variety of roles in between. During the 1980’s and the 1990’s he was the most productive movie star. Farouk married several times. His first wife was Soumayya al-Alfy, mother of his only son actor Ahmad al-Feeshaawy. He also married actor Soheir Ramzy and other women.