Sherihan

Acting

Sherihan

Born

1964-12-06 (61)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Sherihan is an Egyptian actress, singer, and dancer who became one of the Arab world’s most recognizable entertainers. She began performing at a young age with the encouragement of her half-brother, actor and guitarist Omar Khorshid. She is best known for her elaborate Ramadan musical variety shows, particularly the *Fawazeer Ramadan* series, which combined acting, singing, dance, extravagant costumes, and audience riddles. These productions made her a major television icon across the Arabic-speaking world during the 1980s and 1990s. She also appeared in numerous Egyptian films, television series, and stage productions. Sherihan stepped away from performing in the early 2000s while undergo…

Known for

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando poster
9.0

The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando

1986

رحلة هادئة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

رحلة هادئة

1978

Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat poster
8.0

(Karima w Halima W Fatima) The series tells in a fun way the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, where in every episode Sherazade tells a new story or continues a story and the beginning of a new story until the king always listens to it and postpones the decision to get rid of it.

Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat

1987

Date Wine poster
6.8

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Date Wine

1999

حفل افتتاح المتحف المصري الكبير poster
NR

A documentary coverage of the monumental grand opening ceremony of the grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) ,The world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization. The video showcases the breathtaking architectural marvel, spectacular musical performances and a closer look at Egypt's timeless treasures, including the full collection of the king Tutankhamun

حفل افتتاح المتحف المصري الكبير

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Film credits

1990s · 11 titles

Date Wine poster
6.8

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Date Wine

1999

Mohamad Ali's Street poster
6.3

A play in the streets of Mohammed Ali through a musical and performance ensemble, which is linked to a love story with her neighbor, will she achieve her dream of stardom and love.

Mohamad Ali's Street

1991

Crystal poster
NR

After being severely injured, Nada the show star looks for a new replacement to be the heroine of the band instead of her. She accidentally sees Hasana dancing in one of the carnivals and decides to train her, while the girl who was the candidate to be the heroine tries to get rid of her.

Crystal

1993

Gabr Elkhawater poster
7.5

Nawal is a schizoid patient residing at a mental asylum in Alexandria. After her ex-husband takes away her only son. Dr. Shaker sympathizes with Nawal and decides to help her, but he soon discovers that the asylum's chief is planning to use the patients in unsafe experiments.

Gabr Elkhawater

1998

Women Market poster
10.0

The journalist Nadia investigates the suicide of a girl in a house of ill fame, especially since the sister of the suicide girl rejects the fact that her sister was a prostitute. Meanwhile, Officer Ahmed also tries to uncover the mystery of the incident that coincided with the disappearance of many girls, and they reveal the mastermind behind a ring that recruits girls to work in prostitution.

Women Market

1994

Very Hot Day poster
9.5

A young man who lives abroad, returns to his country Egypt after an absence of 8 years on that very hot day, to spend a short vacation to visit his family in Cairo while calling one of his friends Telefonia is exposed to steal her bag, to chase the thief and get the bag, but he can not find the girl and pick up the name and telephone number Inside the bag ..

Very Hot Day

1995

Love and Horror poster
10.0

Dr. Hind returns from America with her child and her husband's body. She gets raped and spends the night with her former lover Ahmed and confesses to him that she has AIDS and he finds out that the virus has spread to him.

Love and Horror

1991

All Good poster
8.5

Kamal is a porter in a hotel who he loves the secretary Dalal. They lie to each other, pretending to be rich, but they discover the truth after they get married. They look for a rich father, till they find a millionaire who accepts them as his son and daughter, without knowing that they're married.

All Good

1996

Checkmate poster
NR

During a visit to another country, a coup d'état occurs against a state ruler. Meanwhile, a girl gets to know him in order to avenge her father's death. He decides to return to his homeland to face the coup makers and the people. As he heads to the airport, his car explodes.

Checkmate

1994

The Scorpion poster
9.0

The businessman Tarek is married to Nahed but they don't have children. The couple adopts Heba from a shelter and transforms her life. When Tarek cheats on Nahed with his friend's wife, Nahed asks for divorce on the advice of the painter Maher.

The Scorpion

1990

Lamada poster
NR

Lamia is an active girl also known as Lamada, who graduates from university, but fails to find a job and finds herself unemployed for several years. She takes matters into her own hands and decides to go into the desert with a few friends to cultivate a patch of it and build a community of their own. However, this angers some senior officials and they try to seize their project.

Lamada

1999

1980s · 18 titles

Lock Up Your Daughters poster
7.9

Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki).

Lock Up Your Daughters

1980

Who is the Thief Between Us poster
4.5

The young journalist, Sahar, meets Hussein in London and they return to Egypt, where he meets her father, Asim, the company manager, from whom his twin brother, Sherif, embezzled a large sum of money. After Sherif gets arrested, Hussein tries to sell everything to help him get out of jail.

Who is the Thief Between Us

1984

Al-khobz Al-mor poster
7.5

Aziza lives with her late stepmother Fahima and her husband Atris. Salem is working to save the amount of money to buy a dear land where his hometown Awad aspires. Fahima manages the price of the land and gives it to Salem to accelerate his marriage to Aziz, who is rivaled by students in her love. Students try to kill him and in his attempt to defend himself, Salem kills him. Awwad kills Radwan for revenge between the two families. As his brother Chases students to Salem, Atrees dies and Salem is injured in his arm.

Al-khobz Al-mor

1982

Don't Lose Your Mind poster
8.0

Wael is a psychiatry student by day and nightclub worker, he gets acquainted with Salwa in the hospital where he trains and falls in love with her. He feels that there's a big story behind her admission to the hospital and tries to help her despite all the obstacles she faces.

Don't Lose Your Mind

1985

El Mahzooz poster
NR

Azouz (Mohamed Sobhy) is a planning employee who lives alone in an apartment in the neighborhood of Zamalek. He is single and isolated from his neighbors. He has addressed 7 years to Suhair (Rawiya Saleh) and is distinguished by his inability to make a decision. The wrong way to a call between al-Hanash (Mahmoud al-Qalawi) and the teacher Sarsa to plan the murder of his neighbor Muhammad Abd al-Rahman (Naji Saad).

El Mahzooz

1985

Qaffas al-Harim poster
5.0

Reem's mother dies after being in a heavy accident, so her daughter puts the suffering that happened to her before her eyes, as their mother suffered because of her married husband, and the inferiority view of women in Upper Egypt.

Qaffas al-Harim

1986

The Informant poster
NR

Mabrouk comes from his village to repair part of his uncle's flour machine, and on the train he meets Nawara. He helps her to escape from her uncle who wants to kill her to defend his honor. He also meets Hashim, who tries to quit being an informer for officer Sharif.

The Informant

1989

The Collar and the Bracelet poster
6.6

In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.

The Collar and the Bracelet

1986

Madame Shalatta poster
5.0

Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way.

Madame Shalatta

1986

You're Free poster
9.0

It is a play that expresses freedom, how a person can use it correctly, and what are the limits of human freedom, and the consequences thereof.

You're Free

1981

The Woman and the Law poster
10.0

The young woman, the young lawyer, is sacrificed to the mother, who works as a nurse in a hospital with her health and youth in order to devote herself to raising her only daughter. She hopes to become a doctor. The teacher is the owner of the house where the mother lives and her daughter looks forward to marrying the daughter.

The Woman and the Law

1988

The Two Hobos poster
NR

Masood and Hamid live in a room in the house of Louahez, they owe the people of the neighborhood a lot of money. One day, a letter arrives from Australia saying that Massoud's uncle died and he inherited one million pounds. Now everyone is nice to Masood hoping to have part of the money.

The Two Hobos

1983

The Virgin & the White Hair poster
7.0

When Dawlat, a divorced barren woman, meets Medhat, a love story quickly turns into a successful marriage. But when their adopted teen daughter Posaina start to fall for Medhat, their world is turned upside down.

The Virgin & the White Hair

1983

شارع السد poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

شارع السد

1986

Rayya and  Sakina poster
7.0

In the 1920s, Azouz is a failed actor and his fiancée Folla works as a maid in the house of the chief of police in Alexandria, who's responsible for arresting serial killers Raya and Sakina. When all plans to arrest them by officer Fathi fail, Azzouz and Folla disguise themselves as Raya and Sakina.

Rayya and Sakina

1983

For Your Eyes poster
6.0

A respectable man inherits a cabaret from his brother and finds himself obliged to manage him and take care of a young girl who dreams of performing a performing dancer

For Your Eyes

1987

درب اللبانة poster
NR

Mamdouh collapses when Nadia marries Ghareb, as he loves her in silence. Motie agrees with the neighborhood to help his friend Mamdouh do a performance of his compositions and singing. Nadia's sister Souad joins him to help him get out of his crisis. Nadia gets upset because Ghareb is busy with his work, and her sister reveals to her about Mamdouh's love. And events escalate.

درب اللبانة

1984

Scandal of a Lifetime poster
10.0

In one evening, after Dr. Shaheen finishes his work at the hospital, he receives a phone call for a patient's ambulance. The doctor goes to look for the address in the popular neighborhood. In a poor house, he meets with the sick girl, who screams and accuses the famous doctor that he did not come to treat her, but to rape her. The owner of the house is staying in one of his rooms. The police officer who arrested the doctor is summoned. He appears surprised by the police. He is a well-known doctor. He is well-known. The doctor is put in prison until his trial, and his son, the prosecutor, is summoned.

Scandal of a Lifetime

1989

Series credits

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando poster
9.0

The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando

1986

رحلة هادئة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

رحلة هادئة

1978

Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat poster
8.0

(Karima w Halima W Fatima) The series tells in a fun way the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, where in every episode Sherazade tells a new story or continues a story and the beginning of a new story until the king always listens to it and postpones the decision to get rid of it.

Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat

1987

Hagat w Mehtagat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hagat w Mehtagat

1993

No artwork available
8.0

Ramadan Fawazir, each episode revolves around a well-known year, as it tells the stories of One Thousand and One Nights

Al Amthal

1986

No artwork available
9.0

Fawazeer Ramadan, its idea is to recognize the name of a country around the world through its distinctive landmarks

Hawl Al Alam

1987

Around the World poster
NR

In each episode, Egyptian singer and actress Sherihan takes viewers on a musical journey to a different country, using its landmarks, customs, and cultural traditions as clues. The audience is then invited to guess which country is being featured.

Around the World

1987

No artwork available
7.0

One of the most wonderful legends of the Thousand and One Nights tells about a strange love story that grows between two beings, one of whom is from the human race and lives on land and is called Prince Noor and the other is a water creature that lives in the depths of the seas only and does not have two legs like a human being but a tail like fish and has a beautiful face just like the face of a beautiful human being called the princess Mermaid..

Fawazeer Sherihan

1985