Kamal Zada, head of the financial sector of the El Gouna Film Festival, and a relative of the late artist Shadia, announced the death of the actress Afaf Shaker, the sister of the artist Shadia from the mother, where he wrote on his personal account on Facebook: “I moved to the mercy of God, the actress Afaf Shaker, the sister of the artist Shadia and sister My grandmother and my father-in-law.
Kamalzadeh added: “Please pray and to the highest paradise. We belong to God and to Him we shall return … Praise be to God for everything, and the 3 Sisters of Afaf, Souad and Shushu (Shadia) are together in a better place.”
Afaf Shaker is the older sister of the artist Shadia, and she was born on October 7, and her real name is Nur Al-Hayat Ali Aga. The twenties of the last century, then her mother married Ahmed Kamal Al-Din Shaker, and she has two daughters, namely Afaf and Souad.
Afaf Shaker started working in art before Shadia and her first appearance was in 1946 in the movie “Angel of Mercy” starring Youssef Wehbe and Faten Hamama and in the same year she appeared in the movie “Red lips” with Naguib Al-Rihani, which is considered one of her most famous roles in the cinema and became famous since that time as Afaf Shaker. “
Afaf Shaker and her sister Shadia appeared in secondary roles in some of their films, “The World is Sweet” in 1951, “Amal” in 1952, “Al-Haqouni al-Ma’zun” in 1954, “Ayoon Sahrana” in 1956, and worked with the theater lights group in the sixties and the last of her works It is the play “All the Men Like This” in 1964 with Ismail Yassin, and after that she moved to live in America until she died there.
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