Sherihan

Acting

Sherihan

Born 1964-12-06 · Cairo, Egypt

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 undergoing treatment for a rare form of cancer. After a lengthy absence, she returned to the screen and stage in the musical drama *Coco Chanel*, released in 2021.

Acting credits

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

Coco Chanel poster
9.5

After an 18-year hiatus from acting, Sherihan returns to the stage to portray Coco Chanel, the renowned French fashion designer and style icon.

Coco Chanel

2021

Lock Up Your Daughters poster
7.7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cat on Fire poster
7.0

Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.

Cat on Fire

1977

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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