| Salma El-Sharkawy |
American actress, born in Villa Rica, Georgia, USA, as Madie Ruth Gamble. She married two husbands and gave birth to one child. She is of African origin. She studied drama and performance, especially in Shakespeare's plays. She acted when she was a child. After graduating from Lima's Central High School in 1930, she went on to Greensboro, North Carolina's Bennett College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1934. In 1937, she graduated with a master's degree in theater from Columbia University. She started her career in radio and made her stage debut in 1949, which coincided with her first cinema appearance in The Peanut Man (1947). Her works include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Airport '77 (1977). At the end of the 1960s, she was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Throughout the seventies, she was a lecturer, director, and teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her last appearance was in Side by Side (1988).
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