| Salma El-Sharkawy |
British-American actress, writer, and mental health activist. She was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Due to the Nazi threat, her parents, who were Austrian Jews, left Austria in 1938. After a year at the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in psychology, she left without finishing her degree and moved to Glasgow, UK, to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She started her acting career in Sheffield's Crucible Theater, where she also started a long-term collaboration with Alan Rickman, who directed a number of her comedic sketches. She is known for her work on Girls on Top (1985-1986), Shock Treatment (1981), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Borrowers (1997).
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