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“Happiness Owner” Back to Acting
How Egyptian Comedienne- Businesswoman-Talk Show Hostess Carved Success By Sarah Gamal An unusual, quick-witted character with an overwhelming presence, able to move between characters with impressive smoothness, never failing to make her audience laugh to the point of crying and getting their full focus, she is Esaad Hamed Younis Jamal Al-Din, or as she is known in the artistic community as Esaad Younis. The philanthropist Essad Younis is aptly called a comedian actress who has made a solo name for herself in the world of presenting programs to become «Sahebat Al Saada/Happiness Owner”, who brought back the joy to programs, in addition to her multiple talents as a satirical writer, producer and distributor. She presented to the cinema many important films and worked with many stars. She is distinguished by a unique mind in the ideas she presents, beside her magical mixture of happiness and success. The Egyptian actress returned recently to the cinema screen after an absence that lasted about 15 years, through «200 Pounds», a movie which is currently shown in theaters, since her role in «The Yacoubian Building» movie. She embodies the character of «Aziza Al-Sayed», who plays a driving role in the events of the film, and stamps her name on a note of 200 pounds. The events of the film revolve in a social framework around a -200pound banknote, which is transmitted from one person to another from different social classes and residential places, in 9 different and varied stories, and includes situations which are comic as well as tragic, each with a hero. Esaad Hamed Gamal El-Din Younis was born on April ,12 1950 in Cairo, and her mother decided to call her “Esaad” (literally means; make people happy) to bring good luck and goodness to her father so that he would return safely from his
trip in England. Her father belonged to a family of notables in Talkha in the Dakahlia governorate, and his father - Assad›s grandfather - was the mayor of Talkha. Her father worked as a war pilot and was an officer, in addition to his work as a journalist at “Rose El-Youssef” newspaper.
HER EARLY START Esaad trained to work on radio on the European program while she was in the first year of her studies at the Institute of Tourist Guidance. After obtaining her bachelor›s degree in 1968, she worked as an assistant in the Middle East program, and then she had a special program on Middle East Radio. She began entering the field of acting through small roles in some works in the mid-seventies, including the movies “An Unfinished Crime”, “Me, My Daughter and Love”, “The Love Ends”, “The Queen and I”, and “«A Rendezvous with Soso”. She conquered the hearts of her fans from the ocean to the Gulf like a piercing arrow through her golden opportunity in the first distinguished show in 1977, where she presented her first dazzling roles, which highlighted her comedic talent, and announced the birth of a new star, in the series “Mizo’s Tale” with Samir Ghanem. With the beginning of the eighties, Esaad Younis started to achieve a noticeable spread and different performance in many works, such as; “The Resignation of an Atom Scientist” movie, the play of “Arousa Tajnin”, “Mkhaimer Daiman Ready” movie, “Shaaban Below Zero” movie, and many more. In 1985, Esaad presented her first cinematic writing experience through the “Al-Majnoona” movie, in which she also starred alongside actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz In 1986, Esaad had a date with impressive success, and that was in the series of “Bakiza and Zaghloul”, in which she achieved impressive success at the level of the writer and
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