Youssef El Sherif

His birth name is Mohamed Ismail Nagy. He born in Cairo in September 14 1978.[5] He played football in the junior team of Al-Ahly, but was injured before his moving to the first team, which kept him out of the field. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Department of Mechanics in 2002.[6] In 2009, Youssef Al-Sharif married the editor-in-chief of Euphoria magazine, Engy Alaa. And they have three children: Abdul Rahman, Abdullah and Jana.[7]

In 2004, the director Sharif Sabry chose him to act at first time in Sabaa warakat kotshina. and he chose an artistic name for him, "Youssef El Sherif".[7] After that, he participated in Fattah eneek, Agent 1001, and Cinderella in 2005, in which he personified the character of director Ali Badrakhan. Until the director Youssef Chahine chose him in 2007 to participate in His last movie before his death Le Chaos.[8] he participated in the Venice Film Festival,[9][10] and in the 51st session of the London International Film Festival.[11]

Youssef Al-Sharif stated more than once in several television interviews that he places conditions in his business contracts by not providing "steamy scenes". He said: "I don’t feel comfortable at all, or find it to be right for me, to have ‘steamy scenes’, for example, with kissing or holding, I don’t feel like it’s right from my point of view, I enforce this in my life and on myself only."[12]

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