Suhair Helmy Ibrahim al-Babli was born on February 14, 1937, in Faraskour Center, Damietta Governorate, but she grew up in Mansoura, the family’s original city, in Dakahlia Governorate. Her father was a mathematics teacher and headmaster of Mansoura Military Secondary School for Boys, and her mother was a housewife.
The talent appeared to her at an early age, so she joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts and the Institute of Music at the same time, which was rejected by her mother despite the encouragement of her father, who had predicted since her childhood that she would be a famous artist because she was good at imitating actors. She has a theatrical, film and television credit. Among her most important theatrical works are the play Raya and Sakina with Shadia, and The Troubleshooter School. Among her most important cinematic works are films, Janab Al-Safir, A Moment of Weakness with Salah Zulficar, the night of Bakiza and Zagloul's arrest. One of her most important television works is the series "The Truth... That Unknown" with Salah Zulfiqar. She retired in 1997 after wearing the hijab. In 2006, she returned to acting through the series Qalb Habiba.
her marriage
Suhair Al-Babli was married 5 times, her first marriage at the beginning of her life was with businessman Mahmoud Al-Naqouri, who is the father of her only daughter, Nevin, but they separated because of his refusal to complete her artistic career, which she insisted on while he wanted to devote herself to her home and her daughter.
The second marriage was with the composer and artist Mounir Murad, who declared his conversion to Islam in order to marry her, as he loved her very much, but they also separated because of his extreme jealousy for her.
She married for the third time to "the jeweler" Ashraf Al-Sirjani, and after his death she married for the fourth time to businessman Mahmoud Ghoneim, and the fifth and final marriage was to the actor Ahmed Khalil, who said that he married her while she was a big star while he was a young man coming from the peasants, so he was He refuses to be late at night, so he tried to pressure her to quit acting, and bought her a shop in Zamalek for a great value, but she sold it for a very cheap price after the separation.
The late artist Suhair Al-Babli broke the rule and became the first comedian star to be an absolute heroine in important films and plays, explaining that the main station in the life of the late Suhair Al-Babli was the play “The School of Rioters” because it was her first starring in front of giants such as Adel Imam, Saeed Saleh, Younis Shalaby and Ahmed Zaki, He said: "Her presence in front of this constellation of stars made the name of Suhair Al-Babli in the foreground, and she started her career as a comedian, starting with this play."
And the art historian added that the artist, Suhair Al-Babli, was not a comedic actress at the beginning, but she was performing the melodrama, stressing: “She was playing very difficult roles, such as the roles of the great artist Amina Rizk in the national theater and in classical Arabic, and who discovered her as a comedian is the late artist Abdel Moneim Madbouly. Who took her to the National Theater and presented her on the private stage, and she became Suhair al-Babli.
During the performance of the play "Atiya the Terrorist", Suhair Al-Babli decided to retire from art and wear the veil in a surprise to her audience. To meet God and wanted to please him, and her daughter had worn the hijab and was keen to study and memorize the Qur’an, so Suhair decided to wear it in 1997, and it was said that the reason for this was her meetings with Sheikh Al Shaarawy and Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud, who she was keen to visit with a group of artists. But after retiring after many years, Suhair Al-Babli returned to present some series, but with the veil, and the first work she returned to was the series "Qalb Habiba". And about her return after nine years of retirement, Al-Shaarawy said to her at the time, "It would be worth it if you were like me and you were in this dress, and you delivered a useful and purposeful message to people. People watch TV more than they go to the mosque, and you can hear more from you than you hear from me."
Art historian Mohamed Shawky said that the late artist, Suhair Al-Babli, when she participated in the movie “A Day of My Life” with the late Abdel Halim Hafez in 1962, she thought that she would play the starring role in front of him, but she was surprised that Zubaida Tharwat would be the heroine, so she was sad, as much as she was happy with her acting. In front of the brown nightingale and a large role area.
Shawky added, in a phone call to the "Good Morning Egypt" program on "Egypt Al-Oula" channel today, Monday, that the late artist Suheir Al-Babli formed a friendship with the late artist Abdel Halim Hafez, to the point that he was the one who called her "Soska".
And he continued, that Abdel Halim Hafez bet her when they were walking together and asked her to walk each of them on their way to find out which of them the audience would gather around him bigger than the other: "He said, we will see the audience defending who will be more than the other, and she thought that she had become a star because her name was associated with the brown nightingale." .
He explained: "Abdul Halim Hafez won the bet and all the people complained about him and complied with Suhair Al-Babli alone. No one greeted her, because the Nightingale was and is still a star in the foreground, and their friendship continued until Nightingale's death."
Suhair al-Babli died on Sunday, November 21, 2021, corresponding to Rabi’ al-Akhir 16, 1443 AH, in a hospital in Cairo at the age of 84, after falling ill after falling into a diabetic coma that required her admission to intensive care.
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