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Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

Born: 1961-02-18 • Cairo, Egypt

Zaki Abdel Wahab (February 18, 1961 - March 20, 2022) was an Egyptian actor and film director. He was the son of renowned Egyptian singer Laila Mourad and director Fatin Abdel Wahab. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema in 1983.

Abdel Wahab worked as a second assistant director in the movie People on the Top (1981) and as an assistant director in many of Youssef Chahine's films, including The Sixth Day (1986), in which he made his debut as an actor. He also acted in Alexandria Again and Forever (1989), I Love Cinema (2004), and starred in Yousry Nasrallah's Mercedes (1993). In 1996, Zaki directed his feature film Romantica, which was a biography of his life. He was the location manager of American films and miniseries shot in Egypt such as Mysteries of Egypt (1998) and The Mummy Returns (2001).

Zaki married actress Soad Hosny in 1981 after she separated from the film director Ali Badrakhan. However, they separated after only a few months of marriage, and he stated in more than one interview that the reason was his mother's opposition. He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer.

Filmography
The Spider poster
The Spider
2022
No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed poster
No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed
2017 • لطيف - زوج ثريا
Cactus Flower poster
Cactus Flower
2017 • Mourad Helmy
Suicidal Notions poster
Suicidal Notions
2016
Sins of the Flesh poster
Sins of the Flesh
2016 • مراد
Hadeed poster
Hadeed
2014
A Whole One poster
A Whole One
2011
El Fagommi poster
El Fagommi
2011
I Love Cinema poster
I Love Cinema
2004
Violence and Sarcasm poster
Violence and Sarcasm
2003
Silence... We're Rolling poster
Silence... We're Rolling
2001
The City poster
The City
1999 • The Director / Tifa
Mercedes poster
Mercedes
1993 • Nubi
Alexandria Again and Forever poster
Alexandria Again and Forever
1989 • Guindi
Summer Thefts poster
Summer Thefts
1988 • Pasha
The Sixth Day poster
The Sixth Day
1986