Egypt mourns the loss of one of its most esteemed actors, Nour El-Sherif, who has passed away on Tuesday at the age of 69 after putting up a battle with illness, state-owned MENA reported. In a statement to Youm7, actor Sameh el-Sereety confirmed that the late actor’s funeral will take place on Wednesday after dhuhr (noon) prayer at Masjid al-Shorta in the October 6 Cairo suburb. Born as Mohamed Gaber Abdullah in 1946, he most commonly went by the nickname Nour, a name his grandfather wished to call him. Later, when he pursued his first steps in the acting career, his sister gave him the name el-Sherif after the late legendary actor Omar el-Sherif. Although Nour el-Sherif had participated in more than 100 movies, TV series and plays along his 48 years of acting, one of his most popular roles remains that of Abdel-Ghafour el-Boraay which he played in the 1995 TV series Lan A’ish Fi Gelbab Aby, along with Abla Kamel and Abdelrahman Abo-Zahra. Shortly after graduating first in his class from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in 1967, Nour el-Sherif joined the cinema field for the first…
