Maged El Kedwany

Acting

Maged El Kedwany

Born

1967-12-10 (58)

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

Maged El Kedwany is an Egyptian film and television actor. In 1967, he was born in Shubra in Cairo, but lived in Kuwait up until age 18. He began his professional career while studying design at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He began acting in a number of amateur plays, which led to him being cast in various TV shows like "Qanfad" (Hedgehog) and "Nahnu al Nazre el-Shook." He's worked on dozens of films, among them are some of the most well-known films of the 1990s, like "Afareet el-Asphalt" (Asphalt Ghosts) in 1996 and "Saidi fe Gaea al-Amrikeya" (Saidi at the American University in Cairo) in 1998. His other films include "Harameya Ki-Gi-To" (Ki-Gi-To Thieves), "Harameya fe Thailand" (Thieves in…

Known for

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Family Matter poster
7.6

Ibrahim is a set-in-his-ways man who is blindsided on his birthday when he's forced to become the legal guardian of a daughter he never knew — a young woman who is equally reluctant to have him in her life. What begins as an awkward obligation slowly transforms both of them. Starring Maged El Kedwany, this warm comedy-drama about absent fathers, second chances and unexpected family bonds ran for multiple seasons on Shahid.

Family Matter

2021

Abo El-Ela 90 poster
NR

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Abo El-Ela 90

1996

Under Control poster
9.0

The series revolves around the life of drug addicts, as wife Mariam, returns to addiction after a large period of quitting, which strains her relationship with her husband Hatem, and her friends and family try to help her overcome her problems, and stay away from addiction.

Under Control

2015

Animal Stories in the Qur'an poster
NR

A series about animal stories that have been mentioned in the Holy Quran, portraying real facts and demonstrating verses from the Quran that spoke about animals. It also covers how the animals played a role in helping the prophets with their holy duty.

Animal Stories in the Qur'an

2011

Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany poster
8.0

The series follows the life of Hassan, an old chivalrous Arabesque workshop owner who lives in a poor neighborhood with his family. The series provides an insight into the day-to-day struggles of the family as Hassan gets involved in much of their neighbors' disputes and affairs.

Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany

1994

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

The Knight & The Princess poster
6.0

The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

The Knight & The Princess

2020

What's the Big Deal?! poster
7.1

A retired accountant lives captive to the memories of an old, incomplete love story. Then, by chance, he meets a housewife who is his old flame. Their lives quickly take an unexpected path, as their romance is rekindled as they got older.

What's the Big Deal?!

2025

Abo Nasab poster
5.4

Ali - an eccentric pediatrician - is preparing to marry his beloved Dalia. Their happiness takes a dangerous turn after Dalia's criminal father, Daoud, is released from prison on the day of their wedding. Ali finds himself at the heart of a series of ridiculous revenge events between his father-in-law's gang and other gangs, which leads to the marriage ceremony and the expected honeymoon being ruined.

Abo Nasab

2023

Asad poster
8.2

A slave in 19th Century Egypt revolts against his masters for equal rights for slaves to live freely.

Asad

2026

Project X poster
4.4

When a troubled archaeologist uncovers ancient secrets that could revolutionize the world’s energy supply, he becomes the target of a shadowy organization determined to keep the knowledge buried. In a race against time and powerful enemies, he must decide between revealing the truth and protecting his daughter from the deadly forces closing in on them.

Project X

2025

A Stand Worthy of Men poster
6.8

A comedy about a group of friends as they get reunited to help one of their own find his way out of major trouble. As the situation gets more complicated, they are forced to take a trip to a coastal town.

A Stand Worthy of Men

2021

Fadel and Neama poster
5.9

Fadel and Naema are an innocent couple that run a food truck business. The events revolve around Fadel, as he goes through many comic situations while managing the restaurant.

Fadel and Neama

2022

Not Me poster
5.8

The story follows Hassan who suffers from a psychological condition, while he has a very strong relationship with his sick mother, who is the center of his life, as he takes care of her.

Not Me

2021

Playing with the Kids poster
5.0

Seeking a change, history teacher Allam transfers to a school in the desert, but his new life comes with more obstacles than he bargained for.

Playing with the Kids

2024

The Crime poster
5.9

Set in the 70's, A middle-aged man, Adel is raised by his strict grandfather who he was deeply inspired by. he met his first love, Nadia who later became his wife and the mother of his son. After this, a chain of events lead to Adel committing many crimes, which are investigated by Amgad Al Husseiny and later, a series of surprises are revealed.

The Crime

2022

Marry Me Again? poster
5.2

When a technical error annuls the union of all married couples in Egypt, a journalist sets out to investigate rising marital issues— including his own.

Marry Me Again?

2021

Bara El Manhag poster
7.9

Nour is a 13-year-old orphan living in the countryside in the early 1980s. He is smart, but is also a compulsive liar with vision problems and wears eyeglasses that don't quite remedy his weakened eyesight. To gain the respect of his fellow classmates, he ventures inside a haunted house right in front of the school, one that all the kids are afraid to enter. Inside, he finds a solitary old man who's hiding from the world. A friendship and apprenticeship are born between the boy and the old man, initiating a journey of self-discovery that lies at the very heart of this light-hearted drama.

Bara El Manhag

2021

2010s · 16 titles

Diamond Dust poster
7.6

Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!

Diamond Dust

2018

The Secret Men Club poster
6.1

Adham helps a group of his friends join a getaway club for men called “The Secret Men’s Club”. But Adham's own marriage is in trouble as his wife of ten years starts following him to find out what he is keeping from her, which results in many funny situations.

The Secret Men Club

2019

Lembi 8 Giga poster
5.6

Lembi.. a poor lawyer who marries a school teacher and he causes her troubles due to his bad financial status, and then he meets with an accident which changes the way he was living....

Lembi 8 Giga

2010

Cairo 6,7,8 poster
7.3

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt.

Cairo 6,7,8

2010

A Break We'll Be Right Back poster
6.4

A story of a taxi driver, who cares for nothing in the world except his friend and his son whose grandfather tries to be his guardian after his mother dies, but Karim refuses and get a court ruling that supports his right to his son. The plot escalates when the boy is kidnapped and Karim loses his memory in a seemingly planned accident.

A Break We'll Be Right Back

2011

No Retreat, No Surrender poster
6.5

In a top secret mission to bring down a dangerous drug lord, the police recruit Hazaloum to impersonate his right hand man Adham after he is killed.

No Retreat, No Surrender

2010

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

Asmaa poster
7.9

A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.

Asmaa

2011

Before the Summer Crowds poster
6.1

In a tourist resort on the northern coast, Dr. Yahya decides to spend the holiday with his wife Magda before the coast gets crowded . The two are introduced to a recently divorced translator and a mother of two called Hala .

Before the Summer Crowds

2016

Induced Labor poster
6.4

Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite them. Others still, just sneak in and hope Mr Trump doesn’t notice they are there. But in this raucous comedy, one Egyptian couple come up with a splendid wheeze. With twin babies due any minute, and all other efforts to secure citizenship fail, the couple decide to storm the US Embassy in Cairo and give birth there. Surely that will mean the babies are born as Americans, right? Well, er, no. As you might expect, things don’t quite go according to plan…

Induced Labor

2018

Ali Baba's Cinema poster
4.8

Inspired by the 1950s cinema screenings in Cairo's sha'abi quarters, this double feature includes a space odyssey and a farm animal protector.

Ali Baba's Cinema

2011

Decor poster
7.8

Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.

Decor

2014

Hepta: The Last Lecture poster
7.6

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

Hepta: The Last Lecture

2016

Sheikh Jackson poster
7.0

The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama.

Sheikh Jackson

2017

The Originals poster
7.1

Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.

The Originals

2017

The Guest poster
6.8

A young man is invited for dinner with the family of Dr. Yehia Hussein Al-Tijani at the invitation of Yehia's lovestruck daughter. But Yehia is under a lot of pressure ever since his bold opinions put a target on his back, which turns the dinner into a stirring debate between Yehia and his guest.

The Guest

2019

2000s · 23 titles

No artwork available
NR

A satirical fantasy play about a poor cobbler who lives in a working-class neighborhood and is known for his wisdom and contentment, but his life is turned upside down when he is suddenly chosen to become king, as part of an authoritarian game or conspiracy.

The King Cobbler

2008

Please, here, driver! poster
6.3

A social comedy that tells the life of the street in Cairo in 2007 and 2008 through a taxi driver. We see daily dilemmas for the taxi driver through the taxi customers from all segments of the society in comical paradoxical paradoxes that reflect the spirit and rhythm of the Egyptian street in all its manifestations to see the state of a society full of shyness and surprise. .

Please, here, driver!

2008

Fly Out poster
7.0

Baheeg is a shy veterinarian who secretly loves Laila, the owner of a sick puppy in his clinic. On his birthday, Baheeg finds a genie who grants him many wishes in order to graduate from genie school. Baheeg tries through his wishes to attract Laila's attention by becoming many different characters in hopes that she will fall for love him.

Fly Out

2009

The Wedding poster
6.1

Facing financial strain, a man organizes a fake wedding to raise money. A deeply touching Egyptian drama.

The Wedding

2009

Guest from Heaven poster
8.0

The story of the life of the monk (Andrew Samuel), who grew up in the province of Beni Suef at the end of the nineteenth century, lost his sight at the age of three years, and sent to the monastery for the purpose of learning, but years later decided to monk in the monastery of St. (Samuel confessor). The film is subject to asceticism, humility, miracles and biography until his death in the 1980s.

Guest from Heaven

2003

Thieves Trick poster
5.5

A band of thieves get together and begin planning the heist of a lifetime. Will they succeed or will their planning be in vain?

Thieves Trick

2009

Cabareeh poster
6.7

A typical day at a nightclub at Al-Haram street is turned upside down when a terrorist decides to blow up the building. A plunge into the lives of a group of people who are drastically different but equally interesting.

Cabareeh

2008

Fallen Angels Paradise poster
6.1

Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends. When Tabel dies, his daughter attempts to give him a decent burial, but his friends take the corpse away to bid him farewell in their own way.

Fallen Angels Paradise

2000

Omar 2000 poster
4.4

Omar decides to emigrate to America as his 30th birthday approaches, but first he wants to get revenge on the people who have gotten in his way.

Omar 2000

2000

Soldier In the Camp poster
5.8

The Upper Egyptian Khader Hassanein joins the Central Security Forces, he accidentally meets Metwally Al-Zanati on the train, who tells him that he must take the revenge of his father who was killed 20 years ago. Khader realizes that he is the person who Metwally is meant to kill.

Soldier In the Camp

2003

Thieves in KG2 poster
6.4

Two thieves, Hassan and Sebaey, plan to rob the safe in the Kaitby Fortress in Alexandria, but the police capture Sebaey, who asks Hassan to take care of Nesma, his daughter; if he does this, Sebaey will not say that Hasan conspired in the robbery attempt. Hassan meets Nesma's teacher, Miss Reem, and the two become romantically involved. Miss Reem does not know of Hasan's history.

Thieves in KG2

2002

The Average White Man poster
5.8

Zaghloul is a young inventor who is trying to save his household from collapse. In an attempt to get the money, he decides to break into the villa of the businessman Adham, but his attempt is thwarted as he finds himself in the yellow of the desert with Adham and Caramella.

The Average White Man

2001

The Hostage poster
7.0

When Mostafa arrives to Ukraine, he witnesses the kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist. Eventually he gets involved in rescuing him, in a country he knows nothing about.

The Hostage

2006

Run Away Kids poster
7.0

(Hassan, Arafah, and Sultan), a group of friends working in the field of reviving weddings by riding motorcycles in the area of Siof in Alexandria, each young man lives a different story, but they meet in the same dream of traveling abroad, and their friend (Fadl Matareya) In their dream, after successfully traveling, they fall prey to a person called Pasha, who falsifies their papers, passports and military service certificates, and as their dream begins to verify, the surprise occurs.

Run Away Kids

2006

Shikamara poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Shikamara

2007

Thieves in Thailand poster
5.9

Heema finds out that he has a brother. He accepts him in his life because he needs him to paint an exact copy of an expensive painting , that he plans to steal and smuggle to Thailand.

Thieves in Thailand

2003

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

Does Anyone Hear Anything poster
3.0

An unsocial and eccentric man living alone, accompanied by voice in his ears, telling him what he is doing and sometimes what will happen, he resorts to a psychiatrist to get him out of this situation. The psychiatrist advises him to enter into a romantic relationship and, events follow, to a surprise ending.

Does Anyone Hear Anything

2009

Coming So Fast poster
4.6

In order to get many advantages in his work in a company in the Gulf, the hero of the film returns to Cairo for the purpose of marriage, and back to work again, trying to accomplish his task quickly, and meet many girls in different ways, but closer to one of the girls working in a tourism company linked to She is trying to change his view of the issue of rapid marriage and the sequence of events.

Coming So Fast

2005

Upper-Egyptian Back & Forth poster
4.7

Fadl works as a history teacher in Cairo. His father, the mayor of El-Bahnasawi in Upper Egypt and his friend Sheikh El-Khafr, are looking for archaeological tombs and selling their contents to gangs of antiquities smuggling. The mayor is different from the Shaykh al-Khafar. One of the wicked will exploit this dispute and kill the sheikh of the encampment. The charge is attached to the mayor, demanding

Upper-Egyptian Back & Forth

2001

Shabab Take Away poster
7.0

It was love at first sight between Adel and Nahla,they soon have an affair and Nahla becomes pregnant. But Adel refuses to marry her to correct the situation.

Shabab Take Away

2005

Band of Girls Only poster
4.0

Two friends, Zaki and Assem, witness a murder and pose a threat to the murderer who decides to go after them. In an attempt to avoid him, they disguise themselves as girls and join a girls band that travels to a hotel in Hurghada.

Band of Girls Only

2000

Were It a Dream poster
NR

Three young men and three girls, with some emotional ties, including a wealthy or middle-class family and one of them rural. They are all involved in opening a fast food restaurant with a loan from the bank. Without justification, the police arrest them. They are released with the assurances of their parents. One of them refuses to marry her boyfriend until she achieves her dream of a restaurant project. The young man returned after her return from work that killed the doorman. In the end, everyone succeeds in realizing their dreams at the beginning of the journey of marriage to each of his beloved.

Were It a Dream

2001

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Family Matter poster
7.6

Ibrahim is a set-in-his-ways man who is blindsided on his birthday when he's forced to become the legal guardian of a daughter he never knew — a young woman who is equally reluctant to have him in her life. What begins as an awkward obligation slowly transforms both of them. Starring Maged El Kedwany, this warm comedy-drama about absent fathers, second chances and unexpected family bonds ran for multiple seasons on Shahid.

Family Matter

2021

Abo El-Ela 90 poster
NR

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Abo El-Ela 90

1996

Abo El-Ela 90 poster
NR

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Abo El-Ela 90

1996

Under Control poster
9.0

The series revolves around the life of drug addicts, as wife Mariam, returns to addiction after a large period of quitting, which strains her relationship with her husband Hatem, and her friends and family try to help her overcome her problems, and stay away from addiction.

Under Control

2015

Animal Stories in the Qur'an poster
NR

A series about animal stories that have been mentioned in the Holy Quran, portraying real facts and demonstrating verses from the Quran that spoke about animals. It also covers how the animals played a role in helping the prophets with their holy duty.

Animal Stories in the Qur'an

2011

Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany poster
8.0

The series follows the life of Hassan, an old chivalrous Arabesque workshop owner who lives in a poor neighborhood with his family. The series provides an insight into the day-to-day struggles of the family as Hassan gets involved in much of their neighbors' disputes and affairs.

Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany

1994

The Stories Behind the Verses of the Quran poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Stories Behind the Verses of the Quran

2015

Al Bernameg poster
8.6

Al Bernameg is a popular Egyptian satirical program. The series is hosted by satirical comedian Bassem Youssef on the satellite channel CBC. The press has compared it to The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show. Youssef visited The Daily Show as a guest in April 2013, while Stewart, on hiatus from his own hosting duties, returned the favor on El Bernameg in June 2013.

Al Bernameg

2011

This Other Thing poster
7.5

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.

This Other Thing

2020

This Other Thing poster
7.5

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.

This Other Thing

2020

The Excavator poster
NR

As the Israeli forces occupy Sinai prior to the War of Attrition, they use an excavator to dig deep in the land, under the pretext they're searching for oil. When the Egyptian authorities discover their true intentions, they try to stop the excavator from reaching Bab El-Mendab.

The Excavator

1996

Your Dreams Are Orders poster
NR

Zainab Al Shalakani from the Iron Lady Party is a dictator and pays lip service to democracy. She chooses everything for her two sons and controls every detail of their lives. Suddenly her son, who has been absent from her for twenty years, returns and tries to solve his brothers’ problems with their mother.

Your Dreams Are Orders

2007

Once upon a time poster
6.0

After their split, Dalia and Mostafa's cold war puts their daughter Farah in the crossfire. Would they save her before it's too late?

Once upon a time

2026

Ser El Arad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ser El Arad

1994

Well Bred poster
5.0

Parents reevaluate their psychological and educational treatment of their children, especially after a school bus accident that turns their lives upside down, resulting in many of their children entering the hospital and undergoing serious operations.

Well Bred

2021

I confided a lot poster
NR

An entertaining talk podcast with Moataz El Tony, hosting stars to share stories and challenges with humor and insight.

I confided a lot

2025

حضرة المحترم poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

حضرة المحترم

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الكومي

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

حكاوي دكتور نفساوي

2019