Acting
Sep 10, 1963
Cairo, Egypt
Ashraf Abdel Baky
Acting
Biography
Egyptian actor born in Shubra. He graduated from the faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University, then the High Institute of Performing Arts. He started acting since childhood and acted in a lot of plays with the Faculty of Commerce theater troupe and with many other amateur companies. He appeared in around 80 plays between 1979 and 1984. He was discovered by director Hani Metawea in the play Rosewood (1986). His notable plays include Ballo Ballo (1995), and Refund My Loan (1999). He also starred in many TV series, including Life of a Modern-Day Husband (2003), and the sitcom One Man, Six Women (2007- 2016). He was introduced to the big screen by Raafat El Mehi in Mishmash (1988), after which he appeared in many films, including Divorcing a Man (2005), A Generous Gesture (2001), and Terrorism and Kebab (1992).
Feature Films (68)
The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.
Citizen Masrey
A police detective investigates an apartment in which suspicious businesses are taking place, so he disguises himself to work there and succeeds in identifying both those who frequent the apartment and those who run it.
Night Chat
Talaat, the son of wealthy merchant Morsi, lives under pressure from his father to marry the poor girl Fatima. Talaat rebels on his father and divorces Fatima. He meets Eng. Younis, the son of a senior politician and decides to marry his sister to gain power and money.
Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence
A guarded undertaker receives a coffin that disappears at the airport, at the same time a gang is searching for a coffin containing smuggled dollars, and the police follow the two on their search for the coffin.
The dancer and the undertaker
Zainab 's father dead body is mistaken for the body of a high minister which is planed to march through a public parade. Comparison between the life and death of the poor and the rich and powerful is made in a comic way.
Ai Ai
The young director Hassan is preparing to film about the Khartiya group, a group of young Egyptians of both sexes who accompany tourists and roam with them and provide them with services for a handful of money.
Romantica
Azza Khulousi, a psychiatrist, goes to Zahran to buy his second-hand car after reading the newspaper ad. Azza and Zahran agree after giving him a sum of money, while his sister Nafisa talks about her husband's death. Azza discovers that Zahran is not the owner of the car and is trying to find Zahran to retrieve her money and follow the events in the framework of the comedy interesting.
مسرحية سيارة الهانم
Hassan finds himself accused of terrorism because he went yo spend night with a prostitute in an abandoned apartment that was being used by a terrorist group in an attempt to kill a head of the state living in the same building.
Hassan and Aziza : National Security Case
Television & Series (32)
"The Locanda" is a series of separate, connected plays, the events of which take place between the heroes of the work, and they are: Ashraf Abdel-Baqi, Diab, Hamdi Al-Mirghani, Wizzo, Ibram Samir, Nourhan Mansour, Ahmed Al-Tamani, Ali Hamdi, Wael Al-Awni, Maryam Al-Bahrawi, Yasmine Samir, Amira Hafez, Mohamed Hassan, Mohamed Bataoui, Ahmed Farag, Medrona, Ahmed Fathi, Muhammad Naji Gedo, Ahmed Ashraf, Mustafa Saeed, Mustafa Hamza, Muhammad Essam, Sherif Hosni.
The Locanda
A different take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade has a recurring dream that a soothsayer interprets as a sign that she only has two days left with her husband, before she meets the same fate as the women before her. Scheherazade comes up with a plot to escape that fate.
Not One Thousand and One Nights
A comedy Egyptian TV show of story of 3 celebrities traveled to European countries to show the different cultures and how they interfere with that as oriental men.
Al Frenga
In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.
