Zeina

Acting

Zeina

Born 1977-02-04 · Egypt

Zeina is an Egyptian actress born as Wissam Reda Ismail El Degwi. She began her artistic career as a model in a number of video clips, through which the director Daoud Abdel Sayed chose her to play the role of 'Hanaa' in the movie Land of Fear opposite the star Ahmed Zaki in 1999. Zeina is best known for her roles in films like Captain Hema, The Ghost and The Island, along with a number of outstanding TV series such as My Father Is the Accused and Layali.

Acting credits

Land of Fear poster
7.1

A police officer is chosen in the late 1960s for a unique and lifelong mission: to infiltrate Egypt’s criminal underworld. Stripped of his name and reputation, he adopts a new identity, living among smugglers, dealers, and nightclub owners. Over the years, he rises within this hidden world, all the while trying to balance his secret duty with the temptations of wealth, power, and desire. Against the backdrop of Egypt’s shifting political eras, his life becomes a meditation on morality, loyalty, and the fragile boundaries of identity and biblical-level metaphors.

Land of Fear

2000

El Dashash poster
5.6

After suffering a health crisis, a dodgy nightclub owner tries to turn over a new leaf — but with all the people he's crossed, it won't be easy.

El Dashash

2025

Pasha's Girls poster
NR

After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.

Pasha's Girls

2025

Boshkash poster
5.8

An ex-goalkeeper starts working as a talent scout and travels all over the world in search of professional players to join Egyptian football clubs.

Boshkash

2008

The Alexandrian poster
4.3

The story unfolds in Alexandria, where Haj Ali Eskandarany is revered as the city's leader for his benevolence towards the humble and needy, and his care for everyone. However, a bitter conflict ensues between Haj Ali and his son Bakr, whose aspirations for power and wealth without effort stand in stark contrast to his hardworking cousin, Younis. Bakr competes with Younis also for the affection of Qamar, the woman he loves. As tensions escalate, Bakr commits a significant error, resulting in his expulsion by his father.

The Alexandrian

2024

The Ghost poster
7.2

A young amnesiac accused of murder seeks to know the truth about himself while he is on the run from the police, searching for the real killer with the help of his friend.

The Ghost

2007

The Money poster
5.4

Sief is a conman who is hired by the beautiful rich woman, Hala, to help her get her money back from another conman. Their relationship gets them entangled in a web of deceit as they start questioning their stances regarding love, friendship, and the meaning of life.

The Money

2019

Captain Hima poster
5.7

University graduate works as a school bus driver after failing to find a proper job, where he unexpectedly falls in love with a school teacher, who is the love interest of an evil businessman. Of course you don’t already know that she will be loving the "King of Generation", after all, who wouldn’t?

Captain Hima

2008

Two Girls from Egypt poster
5.4

The struggle of two women who face many events and the psychological and sociological aspects of being unmarried yet of marrying age in the context of an Eastern society where women are expected to be part of a man's household.

Two Girls from Egypt

2010

Bewildered Bolbol poster
6.3

Bulbul meets a successful aristocratic girl named Yasmine, but she's not the romantic type he dreams of, at the same time he admires his cousin Hala for her calmness and kindness. In the middle of all this, the psychiatrist Amal shows up and he thinks of getting engaged to her.

Bewildered Bolbol

2010

Romantic Sayed poster
5.2

A musical comedy telling the story of a mother who is trying to raise her son Sayyed after her husband's death. However, her son faces problems whether at college or with his uncle.

Romantic Sayed

2005

The Deal poster
6.7

Police officer Hamza requests his transfer to the Anti-Narcotics Administration, following the killing of his brother by Suleiman Al-Muslimi. He monitors his brother Salem, the big drug dealer, who smuggled Suleiman and fabricated a charge for Hamza's wife.

The Deal

2012

The Island poster
7.2

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

The Island

2007

Life's Indulgences poster
7.0

Hanan has been unhappy due to the passing of her father, while her husband Sharif has been eyeing Ghada, the young daughter of his driver. They are friends with a married couple, Ahmed and Mona, but Mona has been chatting online with her ex-boyfriend. All of their lives change when Sharif's driver finds out that Ghada as run away from home to be with Sharif and Ahmed finds out what Mona has been doing online.

Life's Indulgences

2005

Downtown Shaking poster
NR

The film is set in the span of eight hours in the region of downtown Cairo, exploring the variety of characters present in the busy town, and several problems they face in their daily lives, in addition to the economical crisis the whole country is facing.

Downtown Shaking

2015

Zaza poster
1.8

A young man named Dhadha gets a help from a rich powerful lady to run for presidency but he does not know that she other things in mind.

Zaza

2006

In Love poster
5.5

The story of a broken up family in which the father and the oldest son live in Europe while the mother and the younger son live in Egypt. The older brother decides to travel back to Egypt to know his family better.

In Love

2004

Karma poster
NR

A social drama that deals with the tense relationship between Muslims and Christians, through the story of a young Muslim who falls in love with a Christian girl and marries her despite the objection of everyone. On the other hand it revolves around the involvement of a businessman in a major corruption case in the country.

Karma

2018

The Night of the Carnival poster
6.5

Spanning one day, the film takes place in a “Muled” (An Islamic saint's day celebration), following the curious and intertwined stories of a variety of different characters living nearby, working invisiting the Muled.

The Night of the Carnival

2015

El Dassas poster
1.0

The movie in the framework of the comedy of terror on family home mystery surrounds Harawy, who they consider a sort Ghost busting paranormal haunted people and is one of art production companies work of a contest to choose 4 members to serve in the house overnight to eliminate fears of the people and at the entry to the house four heroes discover many secrets and surprises the volatility of the subject upside-down new scams use in film and visual effects were not used before, and deceived in the art of makeup is playing the role of the hero of the film, as well as to the issue of where the idea of horror comedy is a new area of the Egyptian cinema

El Dassas

2014

One-Zero poster
5.5

Many characters of different backgrounds with various problems have their lives intertwine, as they come together through the one thing that unites them; their love of Egypt as Egypt wins the African Cup.

One-Zero

2009

Ninety Minutes poster
NR

The film revolves around romantic Adel (Samo Zein) and the simple girl Nesma (Zeina) dreaming of a quiet family that combines them, but his mother (Nahal Anbar) and his grandfather (Adil Hashim) stood in front of realizing this dream rejecting its connection to the aspect of the different social level between them at the time I tried it Sherine (Ghada Abdel Razek) Wishing to the heart of Adel where she fell in the fine is the other, but Adel insists on associating with the girl of his dreams and leave the house trying to achieve their dream, but the wind comes not to desire ships,

Ninety Minutes

2006

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

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

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