Yasmine Ashraf Sabri ( ar, ياسمين أشرف صبري; born 21 January 1988) is an Egyptian actress.
Biography
Sabri was born and raised in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
. Her father, Ashraf Sabri, works as a doctor, while her mother is a
swimmer
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
.
Her parents divorced later and Sabri claimed in an interview that she was only raised by her mother and grandmother and that she has not seen him since she was two years old, "There is no relationship between me and my father, but the separation is not a reason because people make choices in their life, and there are people who choose to take responsibility and complement the other, and other people choose themselves" she said.
Sabri's father then published a set of photos of him with his daughter during her first engagement party, adding “After I heard the lies of my daughter who I raised in my house, and she was the owner of the house and she had a job… and she was able to stab her father in the back,” and that "family friends used to come to the house and see her staying there, and after she grew up I bought her a car."
In 2022, Sabri stated that she grew up as a poor child and studied in a public school in Alexandria, which was denied by her father, who took his
Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...
account and denied her allegation, revealing that Sabri was a spoiled girl and said that the actress went to one of the highest elite schools in Alexandria with a wardrobe full of clothes from
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. Sabri is currently turning a blind eye to all of this.
Career
Following her debut in the television industry in 2013, Sabri played several supporting roles. She made her film debut with ''Hell in India'' in 2016. In 2018, she starred in two commercially successful films, ''Leilat Hana wa Surour'' () and ''El Diesel''. In ''El Diesel'', she played the role of Donia El-Sayyad, a popular actress alongside
Mohamed Ramadan. In 2019, Sabri made her first television starring with ''Hekayti'' (transl. "My Story"), the following year, she starred in ''Forsa Tanya'' (transl. "Second Chance").
In April 2019, Sabri was named Ambassador of African Women during the Arab African Conference on Women's Empowerment in the presence of ministers and dignitaries from across the Arab region and the African continent. In January 2020, Sabri become the first Arab woman to star in
Cartier Cartier may refer to:
People
* Cartier (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
* Cartier Martin (born 1984), American basketball player
Places
* Cartier Island, an island north-west of Australia that is part of Australia' ...
's campaign for the Panthere De Cartier collection, she was featured alongside Italian model
Mariacarla Boscono
Mariacarla Boscono (; born 20 September 1980) is an Italian supermodel and actress. Rising to fame in the early 2000s, Boscono has walked the runways of major worldwide fashion weeks and festivals, including Milan Fashion Week, New York Fashion ...
and British actresses
Ella Balinska
Ella Balinska (born 4 October 1996) is an English actress. She is known for starring in the action-comedy film '' Charlie's Angels'' (2019) and the Netflix original series ''Resident Evil'' (2022).
Early life and education
Balinska was born on ...
and
Annabelle Wallis
Annabelle Wallis (born 5 September 1984) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jane Seymour in Showtime's period drama ''The Tudors'' (2009–2010), Grace Burgess in the BBC drama ''Peaky Blinders'' (2013–2022), Mia Form in th ...
.
Personal life
Sabri was married prior to her career in 2012. She revealed her marriage to the public for the first time in 2015. Then, in 2017, she stated on a television program that her husband's name is Muhammad, they separated later after five years of marriage.
In April 2020, Sabri married Egyptian businessman Ahmed Abu Hashima in a wedding ceremony with the presence of relatives only due to the
COVID-19 epidemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identifie ...
.
At the 2020
El Gouna Film Festival The El Gouna Film Festival (GFF; ar, مهرجان الجونة السينمائي) is an annual film festival established in 2017, held in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt. The inaugural festival started September 22, 2017. The psychologi ...
, Sabri received backlash for her comments on the COVID-19 when she was asked about the pandemic by a reporter, "No, I am not obsessed with fear. I go on with my life," she said "Isn't there a possibility that we were infected with the virus and now it's gone? It's common sense, it's going to infect the whole world," she then said "Whoever gets it, gets it, and who moves on, moves, and survival is for the strongest."
Filmography
Films
TV series
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabri, Yasmine
1988 births
Living people
People from Alexandria
Egyptian film actresses
Egyptian television actresses
21st-century Egyptian actresses
Alexandria University alumni
Egyptian female models
Egyptian Muslims
21st-century Egyptian people