Mervat Amin…a star in art and humanity

The Egyptian star, Mervat Amin, is not absent from the memory of cinema and drama, as she is one of the artists who established an important presence in the Arab artistic scene in general, and the Egyptian art scene in particular. The star, who celebrates her 78th birthday today, Monday, November 24, the audience is anticipating her presence in the Ramadan 2026 drama season, with a social, romantic comedy, that brings her together with the star Yasser Galal in the series “They All Love Modi,” where she plays the role of the hero’s polygamous aunt. Women, and the series is written by Ayman Salama, and directed by Ahmed Shafiq.

The presence of Mervat Amin gives the audience both confidence and anticipation. Over the course of her artistic years, she has not presented works that go unnoticed, but rather always starts from an issue that concerns a wide segment of the audience, based on the idea that art is a message, so she presents works that come close to people’s concerns, hopes, dreams, and the moments that they actually experience in life.

Mervat Amin’s private life…and her most prominent works:

Mervat, born in 1948, to an Egyptian father and a Scottish mother, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, specializing in English from Ain Shams University. It is impossible for movie lovers not to remember her in the seventies and eighties of the last century, as her roles are present with the giants of acting, and her roles are countless, the most prominent of which are in drama: “The Minister’s Daughter,” “Her Majesty’s Tears,” “The Other Man,” “Long Live Justice,” “Ra’s al-Ghul,” “Do Not Extinguish the Sun,” and “Family Restriction.” As for cinema, her most famous roles are: “My Father is on the Tree,” “Chatter on the Nile,” “A Nose and Three Eyes,” “Searching for a Scandal,” “The Grandson,” “Some Go to the Authorizer Twice,” “The Bus Driver,” “Sadat Days,” and “Morgan Ahmed Morgan.”

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Mervat Amin’s marriages:

Mervat Amin was married five times, the first time in 1970 to the Syrian singer Muwafaq Bahjat. After her marriage to him, Muwafaq Bahjat traveled to Lebanon, where he was arrested in a famous drug case, where he was imprisoned, so she asked for a divorce from him.

Two years later, she married the famous musician Omar Khorshid, but she discovered that Omar was in a romantic relationship with the Lebanese Miss Universe Georgina Rizk, so she asked for a divorce, before she was married to the artist Hussein Fahmy for twelve years, between the years: 1974 and 1986, and she gave birth to her only daughter, Minna Allah.

Mervat married for the fourth time to Palestinian producer Hussein Al-Qala, but their marriage only lasted a few months in 1988. After that, she married businessman Mustafa Al-Balidi, and divorced three years later.

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Mervat Amin’s girlfriends:

It is not possible to pass through the life of Mervat Amin, without dwelling on her exceptional relationship with her two late colleagues: Dalal Abdel Aziz and Rajaa Al-Jeddawi, as they were always in complete agreement, artistically, humanly, and socially. Mervat Amin often expressed her feeling of loss after their departure, and that she sees Donia and Amy Samir Ghanem as her daughters, and considers them, along with the grace of God, her true daughters.

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