Layla Olwy

Acting

Layla Olwy

Born

1962-01-04 (64)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Layla Olwy, also known fully as Leyla Ahmed E'lwy, (born 4 January 1962) began her career as a young individual on radio broadcasts with Abla Fadeela and Mama Samiha through children programmes. She studied at French schools and eventually graduated in 1991. Her first television role as a beginner actress took place in the television series Tears over the Truth. Later on, she took up parts in stage productions such as The Princess, as well as taking up further performances such as "The Guilty" and "He Left But Did Not Return".

Known for

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1992

Morning and Evening Talk poster
8.4

The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches, and follows their conflicts, social roles, their human relationship and their different attitudes towards life and the homeland through the direct effects of economic interests on the relationships between the characters and the origins of these three trees.

Morning and Evening Talk

2001

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa poster
NR

A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th-century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa

2012

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

نابليون والمحروسة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نابليون والمحروسة

2012

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

A Toxic Marriage poster
1.3

Karim and Farida want to get married. Worlds collide when families meet. Karim's family is conservative and his parents do not approve of Farida's liberal background, so they resort to a series of funny tricks and pranks to stop the wedding. Will their love triumph or break under social pressures?

A Toxic Marriage

2024

200 Pounds poster
6.1

The story revolves around 200 pounds that get passed on from one person to another from different social classes and residential places.

200 Pounds

2021

Mom Is Pregnant poster
4.8

When their sixty-something mother announces she’s pregnant, Esam and Basem find themselves in hilarious situations as they try to get her to have an abortion.

Mom Is Pregnant

2021

Sugar Daddy poster
4.8

Shawki starts an affair with a dancer, Natalia, and takes her on a weekend getaway in Sahl Hasheesh. When his sons find out about his secret, they decide to salvage their parents' relationship and travel to Sahl Hasheesh to confront him.

Sugar Daddy

2023

The Shanabs poster
2.3

Laila is distressed by her mother's control over her life. When a family member dies, she travels with her mother to Alexandria to attend the funeral, then many comical situations occur during the presence of the large extended family, which consists of four aunts, their children, and their grandchildren.

The Shanabs

2023

Whose son is it ? poster
NR

Rushdi, a reckless businessman, lives a life without constraints or obligations, until his world is turned upside down by the death of his aunt, who leaves him a vast inheritance on the condition that he finds his son from one of his brief marriages. He is accompanied on this mission by his lawyer, Magda, but their disagreements create constant tension and complicated situations.

Whose son is it ?

2026

Maqsoom poster
5.6

Hind, Emy and Rania can’t really stand each other. In the 90s, during their university years, they used to sing together in a band in before personal differences tore them apart. When they receive an invitation to sing together in Aswan, the three women reunite and are forced to work together on one last show. As they come together for this surprise reunion, they find themselves in a mix of challenges and comedic moments, remembering their past and rediscovering their present.

Maqsoom

2024

The Con Artist poster
5.0

A master con artist, Shahinez El Marashli, returns to Egypt after twenty years to reclaim a rare diamond she buried before fleeing the country. But when she discovers that the bodies in the cemetery have been relocated, she must reunite with her children to track down the missing gem—only to realize that she’s been outplayed in a con of her own.

The Con Artist

2024

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 15 titles

Destiny poster
6.8

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Destiny

1997

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better poster
7.4

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

1998

Alhajar alddayir poster
NR

Adel is a simple employee who is married to a teacher, and has three children but faces financial troubles. He meets Iglal,the corrupt businesswoman,who marries him and he becomes rich. Then he meets Sherine, another rich woman and marries her also. Till he feels lost and wants to go back to his old life.

Alhajar alddayir

1992

Traffic Light poster
7.0

The film depicts different group of characters who are held up by a traffic sign. A romantic love story grows between Re'u (Mohamed Fuad), the football fan and Samia (Laila Alawi), the nurse who loves to sing. And Naeamat who's having a baby and wants to go to the hospital with her husband.

Traffic Light

1996

Al Haggama poster
NR

A Drama movie

Al Haggama

1992

The Stoners poster
7.0

A group of stoners has a story each, including Nadia who loves Samir, but he refuses to marry her because she's poor, Ahmed the impotent, Talaat the deviant, and Abbas the unemployed who marries the wealthy cafe owner. They all share one thing, which is the murder of one of their friends

The Stoners

1991

Hallak Hoosh poster
5.1

Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema.

Hallak Hoosh

1997

Light and fire poster
NR

The film takes place in a village, through Sharqi Al-Dayah and her only spoiled son Ahmed, who is not good at anything and who meets Bandariya Al-Ghazia, who incites him to kill his mother for refusing their marriage, so he resorts to one of the fugitives, Asran, to kill her, and several paradoxes occur.

Light and fire

1999

Axe in the head poster
NR

In one of the rural areas of Upper Egypt, the "Najawi" works on a ferry owned by the people to transport the people between the two banks of the river with symbolic reward, to get love and respect for everyone despite his poverty and satisfaction with the little he earns, and exchange love with the beautiful village "Saadia" So Saadia's family objected to the marriage of their daughter Najawi to his poverty

Axe in the head

1992

Helaly Grip poster
4.3

The story revolves around Dr. Laila Al-Hilali, who lives with her brother, Saber Al-Hilali, a tour guide and archaeologist and martial arts artist. To receive the reward due to Saber's preoccupation with his work, Laila is subjected to an attempted rape by Fiume.

Helaly Grip

1991

Obedience Warning poster
NR

College student Amina (Leila Alawi) and lawyer Ibrahim (Mahmoud Hamida) are in love but many social and economic reasons prevent them from getting married. They decide to marry customarily in the presence of friends as witnesses on the contract paper.

Obedience Warning

1993

A Girl Called Apple poster
8.5

Zeenat, who everyone calls apple for her beauty, suffers from the domination of her boss Qadriya, who can't have kids despite her ninth marriage to Fouad. Qadriya asks Zeenat's husband Hassan to divorce his wife ,so that Zeenat marries Fouad for nine months and when she gives birth, Qadryia adopts the child.

A Girl Called Apple

1997

Love Is Crazy in the Summer poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Is Crazy in the Summer

1995

Al Makhtufa poster
5.0

A collision occurs between a taxi driven by Hussein and the car of Nevin, the daughter of millionaire Ratib Barakat, which leads to the taxi being destroyed, so he harms her and drags her to the police station. Ratib Barakat expresses his willingness to pay the necessary compensation, but he changes his mind when he learns that he slapped his daughter, and Hussein is left without a source of livelihood, and when his mother dies. Hussein decides to take revenge by kidnapping Nevin to a deserted place.

Al Makhtufa

1991

Our Blessed Aunt poster
NR

Abdel Aziz returned to Cairo from an Arab country where he worked there. He goes to his aunt's apartment, discovers that she has become an apartment for prostitution, and denies her apartment owner that she is his aunt, and when he learns that he has a fortune that changes her attitude. Lula tries to convince Abdel Aziz to take her away and marry her. Abdel Aziz is able to persuade them to turn the apartment into a pension, but they also run it in prostitution.

Our Blessed Aunt

1998

1980s · 28 titles

The Basement poster
6.0

The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her and Youssef is determined to kill him.

The Basement

1987

All That Love poster
NR

Kamal is raised by his father’s friend Nassif after his father dies in prison. Years later, Kamal falls in love with Nassif’s daughter Wafa, but Nassif opposes their marriage.

All That Love

1988

The Devil Sings poster
NR

Asim is a novelist who is busy writing a new novel at the urging of the publisher. Imad is chasing him and deluding him that he derives his ideas from him, and that there is a hidden force between them that transmits his ideas to Asim Lutfi’s mind, causing him to suffer a psychological condition that stops him from writing, he travels to Alexandria to complete the story, Imad contacts him and provides him with some evidence that proves the mental telepathy between them, which confirms that Emad is the author of all works published by Issam and were the reason for his fame.

The Devil Sings

1984

Missing Person poster
7.8

Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in love with Kharyia (Leila Alawi) daughter of Kamal Bey (Farid Shawki) who bought his land.

Missing Person

1984

Hell Below Water poster
4.5

After Hassan and Hala split up, each moves on with their life as Hala marries a corrupt elderly businessman and Hassan loses his wife in a diving accident. Hala and Hassan reunite after many years apart in a dangerous situation that reignites their love story.

Hell Below Water

1989

The Rapists poster
NR

Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.

The Rapists

1989

Ayam Al Tahadi poster
NR

Adham returns to Egypt to be surprised that his sister, Fawzia, entered prison. She confesses to him that his friend Al-Margushi has provided her with a job in a company, and when the manager summoned her to his home on a work assignment, the police raided his house that he ran for prostitution.

Ayam Al Tahadi

1985

El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa poster
NR

(Mustafa) tries to get close to (Nadia), despite the student (Samah)'s attachment to him. (Samah) claims that he assaulted her, and attempts are made to pressure (Mustafa) to marry her. (Karima), who controls the interests of the people, admires (Mustafa) and appoints him as an accountant. For her actions, she courts him and tries to separate him from (Nadia). (Mustafa) discovers the violations committed by (Karima) and seeks to report these violations to the police.

El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa

1985

A Husband On Demand poster
7.1

A rich man hires another man to marry his ex-wife.

A Husband On Demand

1985

Streets of Fire poster
5.5

In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

Streets of Fire

1984

We're All Thieves, My Dear poster
5.2

Murtada al-Salamuni's father's mansion gets seized and his wife leaves him, forcing him to reside in his family's country house. He tries to find work at Abdullah Bahnas, but he rejects him. Murtada decides to take revenge by cooperating with three thieves. led by Mahrous to steal important papers from by Abdullah to blackmail him.

We're All Thieves, My Dear

1989

The Age of Wolves poster
NR

Hanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attempts to escape and follow her fiancée fail.

The Age of Wolves

1986

Wanted Dead or Alive poster
NR

The policeman, Shaaban, brings the thief Hamed, who is accused of stealing a bag full of jewels from the court, to a Cairo prison. However, Hamed manages to escape and Shaaban stays on his tail.

Wanted Dead or Alive

1984

Mekhemar Is Always Ready poster
NR

Mukhaymar does not succeed in any job, whether as a lawyer or even an electrician, so he decides to travel to Cairo to search for a new opportunity. On the train, two thieves take advantage of him and put the money of their thefts in his bag, and drive him to a hotel near the station so that they can get the money, but the money suddenly disappears, which changes the course of events.

Mekhemar Is Always Ready

1982

Ghurayb wld eajib poster
NR

Actor Gharib becomes a famous rising star, he marries his cousin Sayida, who's very jealous of him. She recruits many men to track down her husband, especially when he goes to the desert, and meets the Greek girl Verta, and begins to avoid any encounter with his wife.

Ghurayb wld eajib

1983

The Man Who Sneezed poster
6.5

A man, suffering from chronic sneezing, was told by the doctors that his days in life are numbered, only to act carelessly and unethically.

The Man Who Sneezed

1985

A Slam Dunk poster
5.5

Walid, the son of an important businessman, kills his mother's lover. When his mother turns him in, his father tries to use his influence to get him out of trouble, but a young police officer stands in his way.

A Slam Dunk

1987

ابتسامة وراء قضبان poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ابتسامة وراء قضبان

1986

No artwork available
NR

Two men, a husband and a father-in-law, complain about their wives' preoccupation with their careers that they grow negligent of their husbands. In an attempt to grab the women's attention, the two men plot with Camelia, their neighbor, to claim that they trade in drugs.

Password

1986

عريس مع إيقاف التنفيذ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عريس مع إيقاف التنفيذ

1986

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard poster
6.8

Kamel Abdel Shakoor is a general manager at one of the Ministry of Industry's companies and is known for his integrity. Fayed, the company's general manager of contracts, tries to convince him to get a commission, but he refuses despite his difficult financial circumstances.

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard

1985

Almutaradat Al'akhira poster
NR

After his wife's death, Safwat lives on his late wife's wealth, and also seeks to seize his daughter Amira's share of the inheritance. The daughter flees, seeking refuge with her friend Nahid and her brother, and the brother is framed for embezzlement and goes to prison. Safwat tries to impose his control over the daughter, and Ahmed, in return, tries to escape in order to prove his innocence and save Amira from Safwat's hands.

Almutaradat Al'akhira

1986

Ana poster
NR

Sharif who's an accountant at the customs, meets Omnia who offers him to work in the company of her friend, Fahmy. Fahmy plans to keep him away from his work because of his rigidity and honesty. After Omnia and Sharif get married, he discovers that she's involved with Fahmy in the drug trade.

Ana

1985

Al-Harafish poster
6.0

Tensions rise in the house of Suleiman Al-Nagy, the defender of the weak, because his son's wife, Radwana, fell in love with his other son Khider. When Radwana's husband Bark finds out, he accuses his brother of betraying him and tries to kill him but Khider denies the accusation and escapes.

Al-Harafish

1986

The Dwarfs Are Coming poster
NR

Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making many young people come to the disco, causing a huge fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps him face a businessman who wants to take their land.

The Dwarfs Are Coming

1987

Whatever You Do, It's Always That Way poster
5.0

Ezzat and Hassan are friends and co-workers. Hassan admires Soad but he can't tell her about his feelings because of his shyness. He asks his friend Ezzat to tell her instead, but things don't go as expected. Ezzat also receives letters from an unknown person threatening to kill him.

Whatever You Do, It's Always That Way

1982

Samora & the Pretty Girl poster
NR

The film tells the story of an employee who suffers from her husband's extreme jealousy and distrust, so many funny situations happen until things get very bad when he imagines a relationship between her and her boss, and seeks revenge to defend his honor and wounded dignity.

Samora & the Pretty Girl

1984

Oh My Country...Ah poster
NR

When Magdy goes to the Pasha's estate to sell the land he inherited after his father's death, he discovers that the town is controlled by Radwan, a member of the Socialist Union, who is harassing Farida to force her to sell him her land. Madgy and Farida try to break Radwan's iron-grip on the town.

Oh My Country...Ah

1986

1970s · 3 titles

Series credits

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1992

Morning and Evening Talk poster
8.4

The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches, and follows their conflicts, social roles, their human relationship and their different attitudes towards life and the homeland through the direct effects of economic interests on the relationships between the characters and the origins of these three trees.

Morning and Evening Talk

2001

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa poster
NR

A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th-century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa

2012

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

نابليون والمحروسة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نابليون والمحروسة

2012

أخو البنات poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أخو البنات

1984

Laila's Wedding poster
5.0

Laila is considered a spinster due to her refusal to wed, which is born out of her fear of getting breast cancer like her mother. As she gets embroiled in trouble after her sister gets married in secret, Laila's life turns upside down when she meets an Egyptian man, who is searching for his mother.

Laila's Wedding

2013

The Family poster
NR

The series takes place during the war of attrition and its aftermath, in a building and the relationship between its inhabitants, and about a family who loses their son in the war and its impact on them. It also deals with the issue of terrorism and poverty, which drives the poor to drift behind extremist groups.

The Family

1994

Shams poster
NR

The story follows a woman called Shams who's very attached to her father. After a failed marriage, she decides to open an orphanage and workshops for unemployed girls, until an accident changes her life forever.

Shams

2014

Wa Tawalat Al Ahdath Asefa poster
NR

Brigadier Rushdi Ibrahim is chasing the head of the largest gold smuggling gangs, a very intelligent criminal known as ElBaradei, who has the skill in beating the police and Brigadier General Rushdie with the most intelligence and even contacts Brigadier General Rushdia by phone to challenge him, and the pursuit between them continues amid unusual dramatic events.

Wa Tawalat Al Ahdath Asefa

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ألف ليلة وليلة: الأشكيف وست الملاح

1989

Gorgeous poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gorgeous

2021

Another World poster
NR

In a dramatic drama, a school principal named Donia Salem is shocked after her son drowns in the swimming pool, and her second son loses his speech due to the shock of his brother's death. She accuses her husband Badr of neglect and seeks to depose him.

Another World

2022

اللعبة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اللعبة

1981

Welcome Home poster
7.7

Assigned to investigate the revengeful murder of an unknown man, Adam begins to uncover the truth through torn photographs he finds at his house.

Welcome Home

2022

الصراع poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الصراع

1980

Backstreets poster
NR

When Officer Shukri Abdel Aal refuses to shoot the protestors against the English occupation, he is forced to retire as punishment. He gets his job back after a while, only for history to repeat itself when Shukri finds himself facing orders to shoot at students marching in a protest.

Backstreets

2011

هذا المصير poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

هذا المصير

1979

Taealaa nahlum bibakrih poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taealaa nahlum bibakrih

2003

Wa Mashait Tareq Al Akhtar poster
NR

The series takes place in the framework of my teaser of Melodrama, where the girl (Lubna) the school whose fiance is unjustly imprisoned, disguised the character of the widow (Narcisus) for revenge of the family, which was the cause of this extent, and during her living with this family, she is related to them and the events continue, where she begins to reveal facts that she did not know about her fiance.

Wa Mashait Tareq Al Akhtar

1981

No artwork available
2.0

This Show is to collect most of Egyptian Actors in one movies to have them in database

DataBase of Cast

2023

The Twins poster
NR

A series that summarizes the story of twins (Azizia and Tahani), one of whom is kind and innocent, and the other is selfish.

The Twins

1997

عطفة خوخة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عطفة خوخة

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

طريق الندم

1985

Behind the camera