Mimi Chakib or Mimi Shakib (25 December 1913 – 20 May 1983) ( ar, ميمي شكيب), born Ameena Chakib, was an Egyptian
actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
. She mostly played secondary roles, and appeared in more than 150 films between 1940s and early 1980s.
Doa al karawan
''The Nightingale's Prayer'' ( ar, دعاء الكروان, translit. ''Doaa al-Karawan'' ; also called ''The Curlew's Cry'') is a 1959 Egyptian drama film directed by Henry Barakat and based on a novel titled Doaa al-Karawan(novel) by the ...
'' in 1959 alongside actors such as
Faten Hamama
Faten Ahmed Hamama ( ar, فاتن حمامه ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was ...
and
Ahmed Mazhar
Ahmed Hafez Mazhar ( ar, أحمد حافظ مظهر, ʾAḥmad Ḥāfeẓ Mazāhar; 8 October 1917 – 8 May 2002) was an Egyptian actor. He graduated from the military academy in 1938El Hub Keda'' in 1961 in which she appeared alongside actors such as
Salah Zulfikar
Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an ac ...
and
Sabah
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as well as the 1966 film '' Three Thieves''. Her career was at its peak in the 1940s.
She was featured in her last film appearance in the 1982 film ''
An Egyptian Story
''An Egyptian Story'' ( ar, حدوتة مصرية, translit. Hadduta masriyya) is a 1982 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was entered into the main competition at the 39th edition of the Venice Film Festival.
Plot
The fi ...