Actor
Egypt
Lifetime Achievement Award
Born in Cairo. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema, Directing Department in 1963. Fahmy traveled to the United States, where he continued his postgraduate studies. Upon his return to Egypt in the late sixties, director Hassan El-Imam chose him to play the lead role in the movie “Dalal El-Masrya”, released in 1970. Starting from these debuts, his stardom began in the seventies, with presented many successful roles, especially the movie “Watch Out for Zouzou” with Soad Hosni, also directed by Hassan El-Imam. His successes continued in the seventies with various cinematic roles between tragedy such as “The Enemies Brothers” and “The Guilty Ones”, romance in “Melody of My Life ” and the comedy with “Who Can Beat Aziza”? His films in the eighties were no less successful, as he presented "Sorry, I Refuse to Divorce", "Dinner Date", "Shame" and "Running Like Monsters". In the nineties there were also a group of successful films such as “Alexandria, Again and Forever”, “Playing with the Big Ones” and “The Search for Tutankhamun”.
His stardom was not limited to cinema, as he added to his credit numerous successful TV series, including Wealth and Descendants, “One Thousand and One Nights” and “The Wife Is the First to Know.” On the stage, a large number of successful works, including "Emperor of Imad El-Din" and "Welcome, Sirs".
Hussein Fahmy assumed the presidency of the Cairo International Film Festival, from 1998 to 2000, and left a distinctive imprint in terms of organization and management where the festival also honored a large group of international stars such as Alain Delon, Peter O'Toole, Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif.
Fahmy was also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East and Ambassador for the Special Olympics for the Middle East and North Africa.
