Best Supporting Actresses 2020

  • Dalal Abdel Azziz

  • Dalal Abdelaziz Mohamed is an Egyptian performer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Zaqaziq University. Thereafter, she decided to move to the capital. She was first noticed by Nour Al Damerdash and she worked with the “Adwa Al Masrah” trio in the theatrical...Read more production “Ahlan ya Diktour”. She also took part in several other theatrical productions which include “Faris bany Khaiban” “Akhouya Hayiss wa Ana Layiss”, “Houb fee Al Takhshibah”. Moreover, her performance was exceptional in the television series “La”, “Demou Sahibat al Galalah” and “Abadan Lam Yakon Laha”. She won the best actor category at the 1998 Television Awards Festival. It should also be noted that she participated in “Al Sayyid Kaf”. She married the performer Sameer Ghanem and the couple had two daughters. Her performance in recent films is quite different from the performance style that characterized her at the start of her career. Her best performances include those in “Bulbul Mam Yahya Fakhrany” and “Asrar al Banat”.

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt
    • Death Country:
    • Egypt

  • Amal Arafa

  • A Syrian actress and singer, she's the daughter of composer Suhail Arafa. She was born in Damascus, and graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. She started as a singer, then moved to acting in the early 90s when director Haitham Haqqi gave her the opportunity to...Read more work in the series The Morning Star and The Spider's Web. However, her actual beginning was in the series The End of a Brave Man directed by Hisham Sharbatji.

    • Birth Country:
    • Syria

  • Basma

  • Basma was born in Cairo. Her father worked as a journalist while her mother (was a women’s rights advocate). Basma’s acting career began in college where she acted in the movie “Al Madina” directed by Yousry Nasr Allah. Prior to performing in “Al Madina”, Basma had tried to...Read more enter the world of acting through applying for the state radio and television service. She applied for the position and took the required examinations. However, she was selected by Yousry for the leading role in “Al Madina” before she had completed the application process. Following her graduation from the English division of the Faculty of Literature at Cairo University, Basma worked as an announcer for the Nile Variety channel between 1998 and 2000. Towards the end of that period she was contacted by the office of the director Sherif Arafah who had seen her in “Al Madina”. Two weeks after meeting with the director, Basma was offered a role in the movie The Principal alongside Alaa Waly Al Din. Following her performance in “Al Naama wa Al Tawous”, Basma returned to her old job as announcer, only this time she would announce for Dream channel. She held this position from 2001 to 2002. Thereafter, she would assume a leading role in the television series “Rimal” which was broadcast on MBC. Subsequently her acting career took off after having left her old occupation as television presenter behind.

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt

  • Jumana Murad

  • Jumana Murad is a prominent Syrian actress. She earned her degree from the University of Damascus, then made her TV debut in 1998 when she began acting on television dramas. She worked on eighteen TV shows for the next decade, until she made her film debut in "El Shayateen"...Read more (Devils) in 2007. She's acted in over thirty productions, including "El Farah" (The Wedding) in 2009. Murad also owns her own production company, Jumana International. Murad made headlines this year when she announced she was in a romantic relationship with a man (his nationality remained a secret) whom she did not intend to marry.



  • Injy Al Moqaddem

  • Injy El Mokkaddem is an Egyptian actress and TV host who studied psychology at the American University in Cairo. In the beginning of her career, she worked as a TV host and presenter on the Orbit TV network on the program “El Salem We El Thaaban” (Snake and Ladder). She also...Read more participated in presenting the show “Mesaa’k Sukr Ziyada” (Your Evening Is Extra Sugar) on the OTV station, owned by businessman Naguib Sawiris. Injy started acting in 2006 with the TV comedy “Ahmed Itgawiz Muna” (Ahmed Married Mona). Following the show, she acted in: “Lahazat Harega” (Critical Moments), “Haramet Ya Baba,” “Si Omar We Layla Afendy,” “Qulub” (Hearts), and Heba Rigll El Gharab” (Heba the Crow’s Foot).

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt

  • Dina Fouad

  • Donia Fouad began her career as a presenter on the al-Hurra network. Thereafter a half hour meeting with Nour el-Shereef in his office was to change her life forever as a few days later the veteran actor nominated her for a role on the television series “al-Daly”. Thus Donia was...Read more introduced to audiences in the role of “Heba”, daughter of “Sa’ad al-Daly” and took part in the aforementioned series alongside Nour el-Shereef. Through this participation Donia became one of the junior actors introduced by Nour el-Shereef through his works. Following that endeavor Donia took part in cinema productions and performed alongside Hamada Hilal, Tawfik ‘Abd Al Hameed and Hala Fakher in the film “Helm al-‘Umr” (“Dream of a Lifetime”).

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt

  • Naglaa Badr

  • Naglaa Badr graduated from the faculty of Mass Communication in 1996. She was the first Egyptian presenter to present programs in Oman, where she worked with Mohamed El Margeby in the program Afternoon Date. Television shows were her access to movies and series. She hosted shows...Read more like Soiree, You and the Million, and the Arabic version of Money Drop. She acted in many movies and series like Abdel Aziz Street, Soft Life, The Second Wife, and Dear Grandpa.

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt

  • Nesreen Amin

  • An Egyptian actress who was born in Cairo in 1984. She graduated from the Advertising Department, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, then joined the Actors’ Studio in order to study acting. After she appeared in a number of smaller roles, director Yousry Nasrallah cast...Read more her in the film Tell Us, Scheherazade. Afterwards, she appeared in a number of TV series, including Fear Doors, The Seven Commandments, and Women's Jail.

    • Birth Country:
    • Egypt