EXCLUSIVE: Tunisian-Egyptian actress Hend Sabry, star of Oscar-nominated hybrid doc 4 Daughters and Netflix hit present Discovering Ola, has signed with Cairo-based expertise administration and promotional company MAD Celeb.
The corporate will handle and promote the star throughout the Center East and North Africa, whereas CAA, which signed Sabry in 2023, continues to characterize her internationally as her expertise agent.
Sabry first turned a family identify throughout the Arab world with the 2010 Egyptian TV traditional Ayza Atgawez, within the position of a younger pharmacist determined to get married earlier than she turns 30. She has since rebooted the character for Netflix within the hit present Discovering Ola.
The star joins a rising listing of internationally acknowledged skills from the Arab world on the MAD Celeb books, together with megastar Yousra, the Emmy-nominated Menna Shalaby (Nawara), British Lebanese actress Razane Jammal (The Sandman) and the trail-blazing Saudi artist Fatima Al Banawi (Basma).
Sabry, who has had shut ties with MAD Options and MAD Celeb for various years, mentioned the official partnership represents a brand new chapter in her profession,
“Becoming a member of MAD will assist me give attention to diversifying my work and focus extra on manufacturing; and I’m delighted that this could possibly be achieved alongside CAA, my worldwide agent,” she mentioned.
Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab, co-Founders of MAD Celeb mother or father firm MAD Options, mentioned the signing was a pure transfer.
“We’re psyched to be working extra intently now with Hend,” they mentioned. “She’s been an expensive pal of ours for years and we will communicate volumes about her vibrant character and once-in-a-lifetime expertise. Now that she’s on board with us, we will solely think about what different bold tasks and ventures we’ll pursue collectively.”
MAD Celeb Managing Accomplice and Government Director Kareem Samy cited Sabry’s various profession, which spans greater than 50 credit throughout movie, TV and radio, and collaborations with a number of the Arab world’s most distinguished administrators, together with Moufida Tlatli, Nouri Bouzid, Kaouther Ben Hania, Mohamed Khan, Yousry Nasrallah, Daoud Abdel Sayed, Sherif Arafa, and Marwan Hamed.
“Together with her intensive and multi-national filmography, Hend is already recognized far and large,” mentioned Samy. “It’s our dream that MAD Celeb will at some point deliver collectively all the Arab World’s best on- and off-camera skills underneath one roof, united within the imaginative and prescient to take the pan-Arab cinema business world. And at the moment, we’re one step nearer to that dream now that Hend has joined us.”
Sabry acquired her first large display break in 1994 with a lead position in famend Tunisian director Tlatli’s The Silence Of The Palaces, which world premiered in Competitors in Cannes.
Different collaborations in her native Tunisia, embrace roles in Nouri Bouzid in Clay Dolls (2002), Hinde Boujemaa’s Noura’s Dream and most just lately Oscar-nominated, hybrid documentary 4 Daughters by Ben Hania.
On the identical time, she has additionally cultivated a good greater profession in Egypt, kicking off along with her position in Diary Of A Teenager by Inas El Degheidy, adopted by roles In A Citizen, A Detective, And A Thief by Daoud Abdel Sayed, Downtown Ladies with Khan, and The Aquarium Grotto Backyard with Nasrallah.
The versatile actress has additionally starred in a number of blockbusters by Arafa, together with the El Gezira and The Treasure duologies, in addition to hits by Hamed, beginning with The Yacoubian Constructing, and likewise together with Ibrahim Labyad, and newer titles, The Blue Elephant 2 and Kira & El Gin, each of which shattered Egyptian field workplace information.
Because the founding father of Salam Manufacturing, Sabry produced and starred within the 2016 Tunisian drama The Flower Of Aleppo, profitable her the Greatest Actress Award on the Alexandria Worldwide Movie Competition.
Based to provide and help impartial Arab skills and content material, Salam was the manufacturing firm behind Netflix’s Discovering Ola, with Sabry starring and serving as its government producer.
Different latest TV reveals additionally embrace Moftaraq Toroq, the Arabic adaptation of the The Good Spouse, which launched final 12 months to high rankings throughout the Center East on MBC’s Shahid premium streaming service
A lawyer by coaching, Sabry is a co-founder of Tayarah, an Egyptian digital manufacturing hub that creates on-line content material.
Past the display, Sabry is lively in social and humanitarian efforts, whereas her enterprise actions embrace clothes model Second Probability creating trend reflecting the distinctive identification of Arab girls.
