Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

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Birthday: 
10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
Birth Name: 
Michel Demetri Shalhoub
Height: 
180 cm
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roma... Show more »
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and took a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business.Before making his English-language film debut with "Lawrence of Arabia", for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. His first movie was the Egyptian film Siraa Fil-Wadi (1954) ("The Blazing Sun") in 1953, opposite the renowned Egyptian actress Faten Hamama whom he married in 1955. He converted to Islam to marry Hamama and took the name Omar al-Sharif. The couple had one child (Tarek Sharif, who was born in 1957 and portrayed the young Zhivago in the eponymous picture) and divorced in 1974. Sharif never remarried.Beginning in the 1960s, Sharif earned a reputation as one of the world's best known contract bridge players. In the 1970s and '80s, he co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune. Sharif also wrote several books on bridge and has licensed his name to a bridge computer game, "Omar Sharif Bridge", which has been marketed since 1992.Sharif told the press in 2006 that he no longer played bridge, explaining, "I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time."As an actor, Sharif had made a comeback in 2003 playing the title role of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003). For his performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actor César, France's equivalent of the Oscar, from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.Omar Sharif died of a heart attack on July 10, 2015, in Cairo, Egypt. Show less «

Omar Sharif's FILMOGRAPHY

Imagine - Season 34

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 32

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 31

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 30

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 29

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 28

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 27

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 26

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Spielberg

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Maria by Callas [Sub: Eng]

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 25

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 24

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 23

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 22

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 19

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 17

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The Last Templar - Season 1

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10,000 BC

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One Night with the King

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 2

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Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran [Audio: French]

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San Pietro

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Dancing with the Stars - Season 1

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Omar Sharif'S roles

Sheikh Riyadh
Sheikh Riyadh
Prince Memucan
Prince Memucan
Nick Arnstein
Nick Arnstein
Major Grau
Major Grau
Vogel
Vogel
Sherif Ali
Sherif Ali
Melchisidek
Melchisidek
Agent Cedric
Agent Cedric
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Dr. Yuri Zhivago