Nahed El Sebai

Acting

Nahed El Sebai

Born 1987-05-27 · Cairo, Egypt

Nahed El Sebaï (born 25 May 1987 in Cairo) is an Egyptian actress working in both film and television. Her family considered to be one of Egypt's pioneers in the cinema industry. Her grandparents are Egyptian actor Farid Shawky and his wife, the famous Egyptian singer and actress Hoda Sultan. Nahed's mother is the producer Nahed Farid Shawky and her aunt is the actress Rania Farid Shawky.

Acting credits

A Few Hours in One Day poster
5.5

Yassin (Hisham Magdy) and Sara (Hana El Zahid) meet and find themselves in romantic, comedic situations. Omnia (Mai Omar) and Tarek (Ahmed Saadany), the most famous couple on social media, share with us their real story. Amal (Asmaa Galal) and Mohamed (Mohamed Sharnoubi) discover the betrayal of the love of his life. Yasra (Huda El Mufti) embarks on a crazy adventure against her fiancé (Mohamed Salam). What will these hours do in the lives of our heroes?

A Few Hours in One Day

2024

Dry Hot Summers poster
8.0

Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.

Dry Hot Summers

2016

Cairo 6,7,8 poster
7.4

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt.

Cairo 6,7,8

2010

An Hour and a Half poster
7.3

Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash.

An Hour and a Half

2012

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story poster
6.5

Heba is a TV presenter interested in broadcasting stories that touch on the everyday secret lives of women and the social injustices they face. Her frank style in broadcasting puts her husband's job and consequently her marriage in jeopardy.

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story

2009

X-Large poster
6.9

Magdy is searching for true love, so when he finds his childhood friend Dina on Facebook he tries to get closer to her. He is afraid that she would refuse him as he is very obese. So on their first meeting he told her that he is Magdy's cousin

X-Large

2011

The Gentlemen poster
6.6

After the death of their father, Galal, the Abu El Fadl family's peaceful life collapses. The eldest son, Tarek, finds himself responsible for everything, while Hegazy returns from Cairo to discover that dealing with his patients is much easier than dealing with his own family. Matters become further complicated with the appearance of the mysterious man, Samir Italia, who demands a large sum of money from the family. Between the father's debts and suspicious artifacts, the brothers' attempts at reconciliation turn into a series of disasters that only make matters worse.

The Gentlemen

2025

Pasha's Girls poster
NR

After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.

Pasha's Girls

2025

18 Days poster
6.9

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

18 Days

2011

Mako poster
5.4

Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.

Mako

2021

Two For Rent poster
2.0

As the unemployed Safiha and Hamada are looking for a suitable job opportunity to earn a living, they decide to offer themselves for rent to whoever pays them to meet his demands as a means of making money.

Two For Rent

2023

Sins of the Flesh poster
4.5

Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.

Sins of the Flesh

2016

A Day for Women poster
6.6

The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.

A Day for Women

2016

Basra poster
NR

The story of a group of young intellectuals living in Egypt as friends, having a lot of ambition and joy, but with the beginning of the Iraq war , it casts a harsh shadow on the group, preventing one of them to travel abroad to continue studying.

Basra

2010

After the Battle poster
6.6

Reem is a young political activist who works for an advertisement company. As she tries to uncover the truth behind the incide of the Battle of the Camel, she accompanies her friend Farah to Nazlet Al Seman where she meets and falls for Mahmoud, one of the people involved in the incident.

After the Battle

2012

White Lie poster
6.6

Ahmed falls in love with an American girl called Kristy whom he takes to Cairo for a family visit, causing many paradoxes due to the difference in customs and traditions. Kristy is surprised to learn that Ahmed wants to marry her and stay in Egypt, which she has not taken into account.

White Lie

2018

The American Game poster
5.0

In a mold of romantic comedy, a young man and girl struggle with many material and social difficulties in trying to conclude their marriage, and unexpectedly, the owner of the company they work for offers an alluring offer that helps them solve all their problems, but he will put their love to the test.

The American Game

2019

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim poster
6.3

Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. His mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets Ibrahim, who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious noises, in a way to find hope, Ali, his goat and Ibrahim head on a trip across Egypt hoping to help each other overcome their problems.

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

2017

19B poster
6.6

In a dilapidated villa, lives an old doorman who watches the villa since the sixties of the last century, so it becomes his private world. But all of a sudden his stability is threatened by a young park attendant who wants to break into his private space, forcing him to face his fears. so now the doorman finds himself in an unexpected confrontation in which he rediscovers himself again.

19B

2022

Sukkar Mor poster
6.3

The stories of five men and women connected together by romantic relationships, and how they get influenced by the social transformations of the past few years.

Sukkar Mor

2015

Nona the Erratic poster
NR

Abu Saree sends his daughter Naima to work as a servant in Cairo to help him with life expenses. She educates herself by watching elementary school lessons from the kitchen window, so she outperforms the house owner's son, who, as a result, closes the window to prevent her from studying. However, her father tells her he will marry her off to one of her relatives, so Naima runs away to start a new educational journey.

Nona the Erratic

1994

From First Sight poster
NR

Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony.

From First Sight

2004

This is my Night poster
NR

Azza decides to enjoy her day, and to go with her son with Down syndrome on an adventure, and when she heads from the slums of Cairo to the luxurious neighborhoods in order to eat ice cream, she encounters many inconveniences and obstacles on her way.

This is my Night

2019

Immobilia Crime Story poster
5.5

Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.

Immobilia Crime Story

2019