Ahmed Azmy

Acting

Ahmed Azmy

Born 1978-09-14 · المملكة العربية السعودية

Ahmed Azmy started his career at a very early age. His career path began at the age of 11, when he used to write poems and send them to a children's radio show. His poems and letters were so moving, that they grabbed the attention of Mohamed Hamdy, the president of radio broadcasting at the time. Hamdy introduced him to Abla Fadila, who personally invited him to be a regular on her famous children's radio show. From children's radio, he was introduced to the actress Inaam elKretili, who helped launch his career in television. He first appeared as a child actor in the TV show The Knights starring Ahmed Abdel Aziz. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the High Academy of Performing Arts to cement his talent and work experience with a formal education in acting. He also enrolled in the director Youssef Shahin's talent agency, which gave him his first job as an adult in the movie Closed Doors after passing rigorous auditions and casting calls. In 2001, he won numerous "Best Actor" awards in 3 different movie festivals for his role in this film. He later went on to act in Yousry Nasrallah's film The City. Azmy gained notoriety through his role in the popular TV show "Abbas elAbyad" starring Yehia elfakharany, whom Azmy considers his godfather in this industry. He lives with his wife Dina and son Adam.

Acting credits

The City poster
7.4

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.

The City

1999

Adam's Village poster
5.0

A group of friends gathered coastal village depend on fishingpoverty forces them to perform some petty theft tobe involved in the murder and Vistkhaddmanm corruptpolice officer to implement its objectives in that village and escalate events

Adam's Village

2009

Closed Doors poster
5.6

During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having an affair with Fatima, taking advantage of her difficult circumstances. Mohammad gets drawn to extremist religious world led by Sheikh Khalid.

Closed Doors

1999

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

The Promise poster
4.6

Sahrawi ,the leader of a gang decides to get rid of Yousef, one of his old men after he has cancer and taking money belonging to the gang. He entrusts Adel to eliminate him, as well as Farah to follow Adel, but they fall in love. Then Yousef and Adel become friends.

The Promise

2008

Bahebek poster
5.3

Ali, a self-made middle-class businessman, finds himself torn between two loves: The woman he's about to marry and his old flame who barges back into his life. What will his heart dictate?

Bahebek

2022

A Cultural Film poster
7.1

Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.

A Cultural Film

2000

Azima's Gang poster
5.3

Azima is a blind woman whose son's naivety may cause them to lose their home, so she decides to form a gang, hoping to save the situation.

Azima's Gang

2024

Feelings poster
4.3

Yearning to get back with Ehab, Salma finds her loveless marriage, his devastating secret, and society’s opinions stand in their way.

Feelings

2010

The Forest poster
4.2

A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.

The Forest

2008

Lust poster
7.0

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

Lust

2011

Fokak Meny poster
1.8

The film revolves around a university student Walid (Ahmed Azmi) and his dream, which seeks to achieve to attend the Academy of Arts, but that his father (Hassan Hosni) who works for the diplomatic corps insisted on traveling abroad to complete his studies in the field of politics, economy Vtaatard dreams with the insistence of his father, he resorts Walid to exploit servers minimum and running their home in the academy graduation project as the lead role in his play ... and, following review of events between the dream and the desire of the son the father.

Fokak Meny

2011

Stolen Kisses poster
5.0

A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.

Stolen Kisses

2008

Howa Fi Keda poster
5.0

When a girl leaves Upper Egypt for Cairo, she faces a lot of problems that she tries to work through, but she is forced to give up the traditions and customs of her village.

Howa Fi Keda

2013

Four-Wheel Drive poster
10.0

A father returns to his three children again after years. He believes that they have become a place in society. He dreamed of becoming the first doctor and the second engineer and the third lawyer, but he was surprised by the reality they reached, and during the events the three brothers are involved in a terrorist operation, and with the help of a group of girls they succeed in Abort the operation.

Four-Wheel Drive

2020

Jubaa poster
5.0

Youssef is a paparazzi photographer who discovers that his job is being facilitated by Rashid and Reem, two members of the Palestinian resistance. When the two are killed, Youssef returns to Egypt carrying a sensitive microfilm that must be delivered to Sheikh Soliman in Palestine.

Jubaa

2007

King Lear poster
NR

The events of the play decided about King Lear, who decided to distribute his possessions to his three daughters, and because his youngest daughter consented to him, he deprived her of his blessings, and another for his distribution of property stipulated that one of his numbers in choosing specific constructions for everything and expelling their father

King Lear

2019

None But That! poster
1.0

"Nahed" (Nabila Ebeid) as the Greedy Mother fight over "Dina" (Arwa) the innocent talent who falls in love with "Nader" (Khaled Abol Naga) as a Music Talent Hunter & Famous icon/Director & shatters her Family apart when she becomes a big success.

None But That!

2007

The Pulpit poster
NR

The film deals, in a historical context, with the stories of a number of Al-Azhar sheikhs who held its pulpit, what Al-Azhar was exposed to during the British occupation period, and how it confronted the attempt to control its sovereign decisions.

The Pulpit

2025

Al-Zamahlawia poster
4.2

The film revolves around the families of Shehata Hussein and Salim Abu Nawas (Salah Eidullah and Izzat Abu Auf), one of whom belongs to Zamalek football Club and the other to Al-Ahli football Club. Both families have a lot of hostile feelings because of their extreme football fanaticism. Abeer Abu Nawas (Bushra) is in love with Hassan Ibn Shehata (Ahmed Azmi), which puts this story of love in front of the obstacle of football fanaticism of both families.

Al-Zamahlawia

2008

Convict poster
8.0

Sentenced to death for committing rape, a convict navigates his final trying days alongside his allies and enemies in prison.

Convict

2014

Adam's Autumn poster
8.0

The events take place in southern Egypt over a period of 20 years between 1948 and 1968, where Adam awaits the right moment to take revenge for the death of his son as he grows consumed by the idea of retaliation amid the bloody events of a village that is isolated from the world.

Adam's Autumn

2002

Life upside down poster
1.0

The film presents a parallel reality in the context of its events where it is assumed that (America) has turned into a developing country, and that (Egypt) has become a superpower, and amid the suffering suffered by one of the young people in America (Bassem Samra), trying in every way to migrate to ( The great Republic of Egypt), but what stands in its way as a stumbling block is the proliferation of bureaucratic procedures he faces for the dream of emigration to Egypt.

Life upside down

2015

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