Nabila Obeid

Acting

Nabila Obeid

Born 1945-01-21 · Cairo, Egypt

Nabila is an Egyptian actress and is among the best recognized cinema figures as she was dubbed “Egypt’s first star”. She was born to a wealthy family and her talents were noticed by the Egyptian director ‘Atef Salim in the film “Mafeesh Tafahom” (“No Understanding”) on which she did not utter a single word. Thereafter she assumed the lead on the film “Rabi’ah al-‘Addawiyah”. Nabila was married to her discoverer ‘Atef Salim for a few years. She worked in Lebanese cinema and on stage. On television she assumed the lead on works such as “Bardees”, “Sahibat al-Galala” and “al-‘Amma Nour” (“Aunt Noor”) in 2003. On radio Nabila worked on “al-Sabr fee al-Malahat”. The actress also produced some of her own movies such as “Wa Saqatt fee Bahr al-‘Assal” (“I Fell into a Sea of Honey”), she also worked on stage with Tahhiya Karyoka on “Robabika” and received the award for best actress for her role in the film “La Yazal al-Tahqiq Mustamirran” (“The Investigation is still Ongoing”) in 1979. Nabila also received the award for other films such as “Intihar Sahib al-Shaqa” (“The Suicide of the Flat’s Owner”), “al-‘Azraa wa al-Sha’r al-Abyad” (“The Virgin and the White Hair”) and “Khatib Mama” (“Mother’s Fiancé”). Nabila was chosen as a member of the judge’s committee in the 2003 Cairo International Film Festival. She is considered among the Egyptian stars who are most intelligent and capable of survival and she dubbed herself “Egypt’s first star”. Nabila established herself following “Rabi’ah al-‘Addawiyah” however the crucial part of her life began when she started producing. She was in her best form with Ashraf Fahmy and in works adapted from Ehsan ‘Abd Al Qudoos. Also among her most important roles was “Kashf al-Mastoor” (“Revealing that which is Hidden”) and “Toot Toot”.

Acting credits

Heroes and Women poster
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Nabil and Wahid are two brothers who are wrestling champions. During a final match in Paris, a girl hides drugs in their bag. After they return to Beirut, the gang is looking for the drugs. They send two girls and a man after the two brothers, and Donia succeeds in making Wahid fall for her.

Heroes and Women

1968

The Three Friends poster
6.1

Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiver of his workshop but he wants to get it back.

The Three Friends

1966

The Mamluks poster
10.0

After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the commander of his bodyguards Aybak, joins Alhabiban Ahmad and Qamar resistance despite suffering colors they receive, designed Ahmed to avenge the death of his mother on their hands, achieved guerrilla dream he is condemned the country's young people from Egyptians are free.

The Mamluks

1965

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past) poster
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Saneya, a girl residing in a local neighborhood, breaks up with her boyfriend Hasouna as she starts working in cinema. As she rises into stardom, she loses all connection to him, only for them to be reunited as she revisits the neighborhood for the filming of her movie.

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past)

1971

Al Sabr fi Al-Malahat poster
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Kawthar is a drug dealer who throws the accusations on her maid who gets sentenced to life imprisonment. Kawthar adopts the maid's daughter and helps the rest of the children. The daughter grows up and works as a police officer and meets a thief that she believes she can turn into a good citizen.

Al Sabr fi Al-Malahat

1986

Please Give Me This Medicine poster
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Magda is upset about her husband's relationship with Rifaat, who suffers from a bad psychological condition. She is forced to resort to a doctor who insists that she needs to visit a psychiatrist to treat her. Magda finally turns to Mustafa, who is trying to help her but is trying to get closer to him.

Please Give Me This Medicine

1984

The Other poster
5.7

Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.

The Other

1999

Darb Al Rahba poster
5.0

Kamal is arrested with his mistress in the act of adultery. They also arrest her friend Ebtisam, who comes across her home, despite her innocence.

Darb Al Rahba

1990

Market of The Fish poster
4.4

A widow bullied by traders in the fish market from further commercial aims after the death of her husband,a worker stand by her side and help then married her,but does the money and power change him ?

Market of The Fish

1986

Permitted Days poster
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The businessman Magdy marries Samiha after her divorce from Medhat and asks her family to keep it secret for the sake of his family. After Magdy's daughter Mona finds out about his marriage, he decides to take Samiha to live in his apartment in London.

Permitted Days

1985

Borgwan Lane poster
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The divorced Zeenat gets involved with Medhat in a forbidden relationship and then he abandons her. Sayed refuses to marry her even though she is pregnant. Sayed exploits student Hassan's need for money and agrees with him to marry Zeenat a marriage of convenience.

Borgwan Lane

1989

Ladies' Threshold poster
6.5

(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.

Ladies' Threshold

1995

Samara Al-Amir poster
NR

In the palace of a Pasha, the maid Shalabya and the driver Ali fall in love, but the Pasha fires them when he finds out. Shalabya starts working at a nightclub and grows famous. When she falls for Omar and decides to quit dancing for him, Ali tries to sabotage their relationship.

Samara Al-Amir

1992

The Challenge poster
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When Huda gets released after killing her traitorous husband, it angers his father, Abdul Qawi who fights to prevent her from having custody of her child. Ahmed the lawyer sympathies with her and they get married while Abdul Qawi wants to avenge them.

The Challenge

1988

The Hustlers poster
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Tahar returns from exile and informs his sons (Issam) and (Omar) of the secret of his burial for a bag full of gold and jewelry in the garden of the villa that he owned before his exile.

The Hustlers

1986

Revealing the Hidden poster
7.0

Salwa's new life as the wife of a prominent college professor is jeopardized when the past comes calling in the form of the director of the General Intelligence Directorate who wants her to take up her old task of seducing important figures. When she refuses, he threatens to reveal her past.

Revealing the Hidden

1994

The Circus poster
5.5

One of the traveling circus troupes in the Egyptian villages suffers from many problems due to the small number of spectators and its failure to keep up with the times. The son of the troupe owner, who has finished his studies, comes and tries to develop the troupe, canceling some shows and adding others. He faces opposition from the old members, but he succeeds with the help of all of them.

The Circus

1968

Huda and His Excellency the Minister poster
NR

Hoda, a poor girl, gets the chance to marry a millionaire and travel with him. When she returns to Egypt, she establishes her own business where she resorts to illegal ways and fishy connections, which only causes her trouble.

Huda and His Excellency the Minister

1995

The Mud poster
NR

Officer Khaled is on the hunt for a gang that deals drugs. When the son of the gang leader is killed during a chase, Khaled doesn't realize that he is the son of the influential Esmat who vows revenge.

The Mud

1987

Woman and Cleaver poster
5.5

Based on a true story, Souad Qassem, a widow, falls for Mahmoud Elwan who deludes her into believing that he is a well-heeled and powerful man. When they get married, she and her daughter have to swallow their pride under the scourages of his cruelty and abuse.

Woman and Cleaver

1997

One last night of love poster
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After returning from abroad, director Fouad Wagdy tries to restore the old relationship between him and Madiha, who strongly refuses because she is now a wife and mother to the young woman Najwa. After her refusal, the director tries to entice her daughter Najwa and seduce her, but Najwa is accused in the case of the death of director Fouad Wagdy.

One last night of love

1972

The Dancer & the Politician poster
5.9

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf.

The Dancer & the Politician

1990

My Mother's Fiancé poster
NR

Mona confesses to her friend Mushira that she slept with a young man who abandoned her. She gives Mushira one of the letters she wrote to him, and the letter accidentally ends up with Farhat and Tal'at, who think that the letter is Mushira's and try to help her for fear that she might kill herself.

My Mother's Fiancé

1965

The Other Woman poster
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When he gets his Ph.D. from America and returns to his homeland, Mahmoud opens up his own business and recruits Hoda who loves him one-sidedly. Mahmoud, on the other hand, desires to get rich to propose to the well-off So'aad.

The Other Woman

1978

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