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Diversity is the characteristic that characterizes the career of the artist Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra, which he started in the fifties of the last century, where he worked with major theater stars in his golden age, and won championships after that, and participated in cinema as well as drama, radio and audio dubbing, to become the owner of a diverse and great credit, In a career spanning more than 60 years.
He is Uncle Scar in the Disney movie “The Lion King”, the Arabic version of (The Lion King), the teacher Sardine in the series “I will not live in my father’s robes”, and Moses in “The Land of Fear”, bringing his total to more than 300 artworks.
Best Student Actor
Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra’s success in securing a distinguished place for himself as an important actor did not come out of nowhere. At this stage, he loved imitation, so he imitated teachers among his colleagues, until he joined the school theatre.
He won the gold medal as the best student actor at the level of the Republic. His teacher advised him to join the Institute of Acting, which he actually implemented. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1958, and a year after graduating from the institute, he was appointed as a representative in the National Theatre.
golden age
Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra achieved success on the stage, which he started with a play by the writer Tawfiq Al-Hakim, “The Return of Youth”, to then participate in many plays, including “Stronger Than Time” and “Near and Strange”, where luck gave him the opportunity to be apprenticed by major theater stars in the fifties. He lives in the golden age of theatre.
Abu Zahra was distinguished among the colleagues of his generation at this time, including Abu Bakr Ezzat, Youssef Shaaban, Rajaa Hussein, and Rashwan Tawfiq. Abu Zahra replaced him, and the matter was repeated after that, to get the second championship in the play “Al Mahrousa” due to the death of the play’s hero, Salah Sarhan, so the championship was assigned to him.
Animation movies
Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra mastered the Arabic language, and he also had the ability to voice coloring, which made him, along with his participation in many radio works based on world literature, distinguished in the world of voice performance for animated films and the Disney world.
Abu Zahra participated in the movie “Aladdin” in 1992, and two years later he also participated in the second part, and his most famous character in the world of animation is the lion Scar, who killed Mufasa to take over the rule of the forest, in the movie “The Lion King” produced by Disney 1994, although Of the evil within Scar, he managed to present it lightly.
In one of his meetings, Abu Zahra stated that after introducing the character, Disney rewarded him with two thousand dollars at the time, and sent him a letter in which she said that he was better than the character “Scar” in all the translated versions of the film, and in 2020 he was shown the movie “The Knight and the Princess” as part of the events El Gouna Film Festival.
Dramatic and movie characters
Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra, in cinema and drama, did not win championships such as theater and radio, but he was able to make the characters he presents, despite their small space, bear value and influence within the work.
In the series “I will not live in my father’s gown”, he presented the character of the teacher Ibrahim Sardinah, and despite the few scenes, the audience was attached to the character, as Abu Zahra excelled in impersonating the uneducated scrap dealer.
His role in the movie “Land of Fear” with director Daoud Abdel Sayed was also not large, but he gave one of the most important roles in the film to the postal employee, and he was a match in acting in front of the film’s hero, Ahmed Zaki, in a scene in which the hero discovers that he has been for 15 years He sends letters containing dangerous secrets to Musa’s postal employee.
One of the most famous characters he presented is also the character of Hajjaj bin Yusuf Al-Thaqafi in the historical series “Omar bin Abdul Aziz”, for his proficiency in the classical Arabic language and its correct pronunciation, and possession of the keys to the character, which gave him the sympathy of the public, despite the agreement of historians that Al-Hajjaj was a bloodshed.
He also played important roles in dramas such as “King Farouk”, “Who Shot at Hind Allam” and “Customer 1001”, as well as “Hajja Al-Masry” and “We Do Not Plant Thorns”, and recently presented the character of Abu Ezz Al-Jabalawy in “Kalbash 2”. “.
In the cinema, Abu Zahra participated in “The Well of Deprivation”, “Al-Jazeera”, “The Seventh Sense” and “Love of Girls”, in addition to his presentation of the character of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Naguib in the movie “Nasser”.
family stability
The success he achieved in acting, was beside him stability on the family level, where he married the artist writer Salwa Al-Rafei, at the beginning of his artistic career, where he met her in the theater, but he asked her to quit acting and devote herself to writing, because he was very jealous of her, and the marriage took place after receiving 8 pounds as a reward On his presentation of one of the roles in the theater.
His wife died in 2019. He has 3 sons, the eldest Sahar and is married to the artist Moufid Ashour, his daughter Mai and teaches at universities in Canada, and his son Ahmed, a pianist who participates in the Berlin International Philharmonic, where he resides in Austria.
sad message
In 2020, the artist Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra launched an influential message during one of his meetings when he expressed his desire to work, and his feeling that he was marginalized by directors and authors, and said, “I have worked in art for 60 years, in which I achieved all the roles. Consider me a new face and try it, you can pay off.”
Which sparked a state of sadness among his fans, demanding that important roles be assigned to him due to the great value he enjoys. Indeed, after that, Abu Zahra participated in many works, including “Back Attack” and “Family Issue”.
Urgent surgery
However, the artist Abu Zahra was exposed to a health problem last year 2021 after he sustained a fracture and a crack in the pelvic joint, and he had to undergo urgent surgery, after which he received physiotherapy sessions to recover his ability to walk.
Corona infection and recovery
The artist Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra participated in the closing ceremony of the Cairo Film Festival in its forty-third session, last December, along with the most prominent stars and filmmakers in Egypt and the Arab world.
A few weeks later, Abu Zahra underwent treatment for the Corona virus in the hospital for treatment, and his son Ahmed announced, days later, that his father recovered and returned home safely.
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