Hend Sabri: First Arab star to win Starling Cinema Award at Venice Film Festival

Born in 1979 in Kebli, Tunisia, Sabry studied law and completed a master’s degree in intellectual property and copyright law in 2004, but by then, she had already been acting for about a decade.

She started her acting career in 1994 with the Tunisian film "Samt El Qosour" (The Silence of the Palaces) and starred in "The Season of Men" in 2000.Both movies were directed by Moufida Tlatli.

She was then introduced to the Egyptian cinema by Inas el-Deghedy in 2001 with the film "Mozakerat Morahka" (The Diary of a Teenager), co-starring alongside Ahmed Ezz.