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March 2004
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Mini biography
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Khaled Abol
Naga Studied Tele-communication Engineering
and graduated with honours from Ain Shams University, one of
the most respected Engineering schools in Egypt, Simultaneously played
Water-polo as a hobby that grew fast to become almost a profession
when
he teamed up with Egypt's Water-polo National team (Goal Keeper),
at the same time he had a parallel hobby of acting & singing at the
Theatre Department of The American
University in Cairo, where he studied theatre and acted in most
university
play productions collecting "Best Actor Award" title for
varsity-competition plays year after year.
He Exchanged hobbies and professions
several times. First when Water-polo became the main
focus
for him 1986-1989, then Satellites
Research and Tele-Communications took his great attention
while researching it at University
of Surrey UK,
1990-1992, He still kept a second hobby of playing Water polo for his
varsity team in
European tournaments while based in the UK. where He also kept in touch
with plays shown in
London,
He also started a parallel Fashion Modeling career/hobby 1993-1996.
Khaled decided to give his growing artistic hobbies better potential of
growth into a career by dedicating the year of 1997 to study film
Acting, Cinematography and Directing in the USA, after winning a Best
short art-film prize of the Cairo biennalle for his directoral
debut Sol Star (1996)
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In 1999, The rythem fastened for
Khaled,
First when he (as a famous young face & well established catwalk
model
in Egypt) was offered to Host TV programs at Nile Variety Channel; part
of
a new Thematic Network
inaugurated
by state owned ERTU in Egypt.
Khaled in a very short time became the talk of the town with his new
fresh style and contraversial ways. He hosted many programs including
the hit show Eshar Ma'ana and
interviewed stars from all walks of Arts - Local and International.
Khaled left Nile Variety channel October 2000, joined the pan-arab MBC TV in June 2001 hosting MUZIKANA (www.muzikana.com) creating massive
pan-Arab audience awareness.
In the year 2000 He was also chosen by News Dept. (ERTU Ch:1 in Egypt)
as a result of winning the title of "BEST NEW TV ANNOUNCER"; to
present, "GOOD MORNING EGYPT", one of the most widely known programs in
Egypt, and continued presenting it till end of 2001.
At the same time, another major dream came true; Acting in film, By
the end of year 2001 Khaled became a movie star for Arab youth with
movies released in Egypt & the Arab world.
It all started when the the well known and respected Egyptian Film
maker"Daoud Abdel
Sayed" (IMDB)
chose
Khaled as the lead role with Salah Abdallah and the first time actor
and
contraversial singer Shaaban Abdel Reheem in:
"Le Citoyen et l’indic et le
voleur" "A Citizen & a Detective & a
Thief " "Mowaten we Mokhber we
Haramy (2001)" (www.egyfilm.com/mowaten)
(IMDB)
The film style and cast took critics and audiences by surprise, and it
took almost three weeks before critics could get over the initial shock
and felt the overwhelming audience response which was one step ahead of
the
critics and gave the film quite a bonus at the box office, It was clear
that this is a new classic of Daoud Abdel Sayed
with new stars being born.
Egyptian Director Ali Abdel-Khalek (IMDB) who
casted and directed Khaled's earlier role as Ashraf in "Rendez-Vous (2000)" (http://rendez-vous-movie.com/)
(IMDB)
landed him another role in the true story shot in
Alexandria & Port-said locations to be a war action film "Yom EL Karama (2002)" (file data) as Lt. Hasan Hosny,
a
different and unexpected role by the audience proving Khaled's
versatility as a promising new actor and star much needed for the
anticipated new rennainssance of the Egyptian cinema of the new
millenium.
- Khaled also attracted the young first time Director Hani
Khalifa together with the young script writer Tamer
Habib to choose Khaled to lead in "Sahar El Layaly" (2003) (IMDB)as "Ali" among a
large cast of young promising stars of Egyptian cinema, the film
release has been delayed several times & still in final stages but
expected to be released 2003.
- From 2002 Khaled has established a proffessional star
actor
status which lead to his nomination to star many other projects, like
the musical comedy "WEST EL BALAD" where He sang and performed
a contemporary "Romeo"
set in a Cairene downtown alley. and also as "Seif El Daly" in "EL BANAT" (2003) (IMDB) TV Series which
won him BEST TV Award from Minister Safwat El-Sherif of Egypt.
He
performed the role of "Kimo" a famous young actor / star who finds
stardom
a prison only when he falls in real love in "Girls' Love"
a.k.a. "Women's love"
a.k.a. "Hob
El Banat" (2004) (IMDB)
written once again by Tamer Habib and got
Special mention awards in
Cairo International
Film Festival October 2003. It was shot March till August 2003.
Directed by Khaled
El Hagar
(IMDB).
Khaled won several Awards including:
BEST ACTOR AWARD
for his role "Ali" in "Sahar
El Layaly" (2003) at (Syria) Damascus
Int'l Film Festival 2003
Egyptian Oscars ACTING AWARD
for his role "Ali" in "Sahar El
Layaly" (2003) from
Egyptian Film Society 2004
BEST ACTOR AWARD
from ART for his achievement as a Young Actor from 1998-2003, 2003
BEST FILM AUDIENCE AWARD at
(Tunisian) Sousse FIFEJ 2003 Film Festival.
BEST ACTOR
AWARD for his role "Ali" in "Sahar El Layaly" (2003)
from several Media & Magazine Polls, 2003
Nominated by Egypt
for the Acadamy OSCARS Awards (LA, USA) for Best Foreign Film
Competition 2003.
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Personal quotes
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"Material THINGS do NOT give us any
extra Value, we are the ones who give material THINGS all its value."
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Where now:
- (November 2003) as an Actor, Khaled is based in Cairo,
Egypt. But he is constantly travelling for work either as an actor, or
as
a TV-Host: 11-16 Nov 2003 in AMIENS FILM FESTIVAL , France.
- Early July 2002: Paris; IMA Biennalle with Mowaten we
Mokhber
we haramy
Mid July till end August: Cairo; "WEST EL BALAD Play"
OTHER BIOGRAPHIES:
FROM ARABTORONTO.COM ARABTORONTO
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Khaled Abolnaga, From Fashion to
Acting |
An Egyptian Phenomenon on Egyptian television,
commercials, modeling, Egyptian cinema, hosting & interviewing on
programs, Khaled Abolnaga, the Egyptian jack of seven trades, Khaled
Abolnaga was only 12 years old when he started his career as an actor.
He starred alongside Naglaa Fathy and Hussein Fahmy in film "GENOUN AL
HOB" aka.. Madness of Love.
Besides being a computer science student and teaching assistant at the
AUC, Khaled studied Tele-Communication Engineering at the Ain Shams
University.
Throughout those years of studying from 1989-1994, he kept on taking
roles in plays to fullfill his artistic desire. Having being graduated
with highest honours , he won a scholarship in the UK to research
spacecraft
design!. In 1995 launched his first experimental satellite with a group
of students from all over the world in Orbit... they called it UoSAT-5
satellite..
it is still in the orbit up till present.
In 1998-1999, Khaled decided to turn seriously into his artistic side
and study acting/directing and cinematography when he went to Hollywood
to
study cinema. Khaled Abolnaga just finished filming his first string
film
"MOWATEN WE MOKHBER WE HARAMY" were he shares the starring roles
with
Salah Abdallah, Shaaban Abd El Rehim, and Hend Sabry.
Dawood Abd El Sayed directs the film. "MOWATEN WE MOKHBER WE HARAMY"
is an attempt by Dawood Abd El Sayed to investigate a hilarious
assumption: What would happen if a classically educated and cultured
person a symbol of "A Citizen" played by Khaled Abolnaga happened to be
in a clash with
a "Thief" played by Shaaban Abd El Rehim who is a Street-wise thief
with
no education nor sophistication of the Citizen. The detective role
"Mokhber" played by Salah Abdallah a symbol of the authority, tries to
help and asks for help in return, also introduces to the "Citizen" his
future wife, "Hayat" played by Hend Sabry who becomes the link between
the two different worlds of the Citizen and the Thief. The Film is a
Black Comedy with few new songs released for the first time.
Khaled Abolnaga is preparing now for his new film, He will be playing
"ALI" in "SAHAR EL LAYALY", directed by Hany Khalifa and written by
Tamer Habib, co-stars: Sherif Mouneer, Mona Zaki, Ahmed Helmy, on air
for 45 minutes
talking while it was a scheduled 5 minutes interview, a lot of
reporters
quoted that interview in the press, ANOTHER MEDIA VICTORY FOR KHALED AS
A TV-HOST.
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