Adel Imam (May 17, 1940 -), Egyptian actor. He is considered one of the most famous actors in Egypt and the Arab world. He was famous for playing comedic roles that were mixed in many films with romance, politics and social issues. He began his artistic career in 1960 AD and participated in many films, plays and series.
Adel Imam starred in many films that achieved the highest revenues in the history of Egyptian cinema. In the eighties and nineties, his films were the highest-grossing in the cinema, which made him superior to the rest of the actors.
He was born in the village of Shaha, the center of Mansoura, in Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at Cairo University. He began his artistic life on the university stage and from there to making cinema. His beginning was in 1962 with small roles, but his fame began in the mid-seventies of the twentieth century, through his comedic roles mixed with political character. He has performed more than a hundred films during a period and another. Some of his cinematic and television works are daring and cause an uproar and controversy for his discussion of important social, political and religious issues such as the Arab crises with Israel and Denmark.
his artistic life
Adel Imam began his career in the play "I and He", starring Fouad Al Mohandes and Shwikar, and he achieved success, and theatrical works continued. In the cinema, he appeared in many films, including My wife, general manager, the dignity of my wife, and the imp of my wife, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia, Thieves but Good, starring Ahmed Mazhar and Mary Munib, and The Virgin Tower, starring Salah Zulfiqar and Nahed Sharif. Then his fame began in the seventies of the twentieth century through films in which he starred, such as Searching for a Scandal with Mervat Amin and Samir Sabry, Antar Shail Seifeh with Noura, and Searching for Trouble with Mahmoud El-Meligy, Nahid Sharif and Safaa Abu Al-Saud. We are aware of the bus and it is considered one of the most important films Egyptian cinema, where he touched on issues of a sharp political nature, and the movie Ragab Over Hot Candles with Saeed Saleh and Nahid Sherif in 1979,The artist Abdel Halim Hafez participated in a radio series "Please Don't Understand Me Quickly", which was broadcast in October 1973.
This was followed by the stage of control and domination, where he became one of the actors who bought the most tickets for his cinematic works in the eighties of the twentieth century, where he participated in comic characters in which he embodied the role of the Egyptian at its various stages and levels, such as the educated youth or the simple rural and confronted the cruelty of life and in the same period played more serious roles to compete with the actors His distinguished generation, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, and Nour El Sherif, was welcomed by critics in a number of films.
He continued his commercial success in action films and more massive productions such as Al-Nimr wa Al-Femaleh, Al-Mawlid, Hanafi Al-Abha.
With the beginning of the nineties of the twentieth century, his films took on a political and social character that reflects the interests of the ordinary street man in Egyptian and Arab society in a comic way, and he formed a very successful working team with scriptwriter Wahid Hamed and director Sherif Arafa.
He has achieved great success in recent years at the local and international levels in the role of (Zaki El-Desouki) in the film The Yacoubian Building, which was praised by international and international critics, and the film was shown at several international festivals and at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, followed by successes in films such as Morgan Ahmed Morgan and Hassan And Morcos with the artist Omar Sharif, and Bobos with the artist Yousra. He was also known for encouraging new talents by participating in starring his works, where actress Nelly Karim participated in the 2010 movie Alzheimer’s.
binaries
Adel Imam formed several artistic duets that met with great success, the most prominent of which was the artists Saeed Saleh, who Adel Imam participated in many of his cinematic works, in addition to Ahmed Ratib, Youssef Daoud, Saeed Tarabik, Khaled Sarhan and Diaa Al-Mirghani, and among the artists Lebleba and Yousra, who participated with him in many of the movies.
positions
In 2000, he was chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, thus becoming known on the global political level.
Awards and Honors
Adel Imam at the Doha Festival in 2009
Best Actor Award for the year 1995 for the terrorist movie from the Cairo Film Festival.
Lifetime Achievement Award from Dubai International Film Festival 2005.
Award from the International Jury for Best Actor in 2006 for the film The Yacoubian Building from the Sao Paulo International Film Festival.
2006 Best Narrative Actor Award from Tribeca International Film Festival in New York.
Best Actor Award for 2007 for the film The Yacoubian Building from the Cairo Film Festival.
Lifetime Achievement Award from Dubai International Film Festival 2008.
Honorary award from the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2014.
Golden Tanit Award from the Carthage Film Festival in 2016.
The National Medal of Merit in the Culture Sector of the First Class, awarded by Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in 2016.
Creative Achievement Award in the first session of El Gouna Festival 2017.
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