Tamim Abdo
Biography
Tamim Abdou is a Tunisian film, stage and television actor. His relationship to acting began with stage productions in his hometown of Siliana, Tunisia, and despite beginning law school in Tunisia, he decided to travel to Iraq to work as a translator, after which he went to Egypt, where he joined the Institute of Theater Actors to train in acting and directing. He also joined Youssef Chahine's production company, where he's worked for 22 years. Over time he rose to production manager there, overseeing foreign films shot in Egypt. Abdou also worked in advertising. His close friendship with Yousry Nasrallah also ended up having great professional benefits, as Nasrallah cast him in several of his most famous films. Abdou has also appeared in shows like "Ahl Cairo" from director Mohamed Ali, in which he co-starred with Khaled El Sawy.
Known For & Full Filmography60 Titles
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as مختار
When Ahmed, a plastic surgeon, and Laila, the owner of a cosmetics project, meet, they soon fall in love with each other, but their different family circumstances stand in the way of their relationship, but they decide to get married and defy the circumstances.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
In the wake of the 25th of January revolution, Fadel Abu El-Rous surrounds himself with wealthy and powerful businessmen that he appeals to using his intelligence and cunning.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Leh Laa?! is a female-led Egyptian anthology drama that stands out for its candid exploration of women’s autonomy and social constraints. The first season follows Alia, a privileged young woman who breaks away from a controlling mother and an arranged marriage to define her own path. Each subsequent season introduces a new story — from adoption to divorce — combining emotional realism with sharp, contemporary social commentary. Featuring Amina Khalil, Menna Shalaby and Nelly Karim.
Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Ahmed Qasim, famously named Aix, is killed in a heinous accident, then the events before his death were exposed to show the relationship of the hero with his family, friends and all influencers in his life until he was exposed to this incident, and investigations are ongoing into the issue of his death to try to find out who killed X.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Very Stingy Man Called Mamoun, He has four sons that he prohibits them form everything and his wife, even separated all about him, and then they find out that he is a billionaire, and the journey begin to find out where the hidden money, and how to take it from him
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A college professor rebelling on political situations, holds a big governmental position after the revolution, but he gets shocking surprises.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
In a social dramatic context, the events of the series revolve around the issue of marital infidelity and the secrets of the human soul through three women (a doctor, a lawyer, and an employee in one of the departments), where the pace of events escalates due to the disputes between the lawyer and her husband, an interior designer, especially after she accused him of betrayal, with the intertwined relationships between all parties.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Hayat is a schizophrenic woman who was admitted to a mental hospital after killing her mother. When she successfully convinces her doctor that she was set up by her family, he helps her leave the hospital to begin a journey full of unexpected surprises and mysterious turns.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A businessman decides to return home after ten years abroad, during which time he's achieved all the success and wealth in the world. After a fateful accident, he loses his memory and struggles to know his true self and identity, as each episode unveils a further piece of the puzzle.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Omar Salah, a surveillance camera technician at General Jalal’s company, is recruited by Egyptian intelligence through officer Khaled Sabry in order to infiltrate Europe to uncover the Mossad cells present there and in Egypt and learn the tasks required of them.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Mahmoud is a young engineer who misses on a job at his university due to corruption. As he stands up to a businessman, the latter frames him for murder and Mahmoud is forced to flee in an attempt to prove his innocence. But another tragedy awaits him when his brother gets killed.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The events of the series revolve around three young people who stand in the face of their dreams, so fate increases in their determination to achieve them, and fate pushes them to meet the general, so he forms a team from them to regain the rights, and they discover that they only get the crumbs, so they decide to separate from the general and the conflict begins.
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Hazim
An ambitious lawyer survives an assassination attempt, he escapes to Belgium to start a new life with a different identity, decides to seek revenge.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A dramatic police investigation by chief detective Colonel Hassan, the task entrusted to him is to look into a bomb report in a luxury hotel in downtown Cairo on the wedding night of the scandalous businesswoman Belle Safi, who will be attended by important community figures at various levels, but each carrying Inside is much worse than what people show.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The life of the wealthy man Naguib Zahi Zarkash, takes an unexpected turn after he discovers the shocking secret of having a son that he knows nothing about. With the help of his servant, he succeeds in reaching three young men, that his son might be one of them.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The grandson of Antar Abassi enters a fierce battle with Asad Alrijal, and tries to beat him with all his strength in order to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the tribe.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The series of stories of girls in a romantic comedy about the lives of 4 girls, including friendship, love and success at work.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
In a social and cynical context, the series revolves around Maemon, a very stingy man who has a wife and four kids whom he deprives of everything. After they all leave him, they discover that he's a billionaire. They then start a journey of finding his hidden wealth and how to get hold of it.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The show revolves around a group of friends who have remained very close since their school days. Though life has taken them down different paths, when they're brought back together, new confrontations and secrets arise, and a series of very surprising events unfold.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A family consisting of a mother, two sons and three daughters move to a new home just a year after the father's death. The series shows the relationships between them and outside their surroundings, the stories and the situations they face.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as د. عبد العزيز
After his debts mount up in Europe, Baligh returns home to regain his right in the inheritance, but his mission soon turns into an attempt to reconcile his family.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Wali of Egypt
A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Emad
Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant. When turbulent times tear Yasser's family apart, the boys team up for a money-making scheme that results in misadventures.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An aspiring artist tries to make it, facing numerous difficulties both personally and professionally throughout her life, since her persecuted childhood and adolescence as a girl living in a rural area.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as مقبل شعبان
The series revolves around several intertwined events, different Aisha. The series deals with the story of Rabih al-Halawani, and his son Rabie al-Halawani. The magazine and its partner in extortion operations, ill-informed. On the other hand, there is a reason to spend the protection and care of a purebred (ewe) and closer to her on the other side, as she escapes to work for Karawana and then becomes a beach dancer. He exploits the need for a job as an engineer by one of the sons of the Egyptian countryside, in order to exploit him and his father to implement private and suspicious deals.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
A suspense anthology series airing weekly, in each episode a different crime is being investigated by examining clues and evidence to identify the perpetrator.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When businessman Sherif (Ahmed Ezz) reports his wife's Sara (Ruby) mysterious disappearance to the police, investigation led by officer (Mohamed Ragab) reveals conflicting testimonies and the possibility of a very sinister abduction.
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
When Hashem divorces his first wife, he marries the ambitious Maryam who supports his run for the presidency and tries to seize control of the government when he is hospitalized after an assassination attempt.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The twin brothers Shawqy and Zika wish to change their lives for the better, as Shawqy wants to become an actor and Zika a singer. They pursue their lovers and their dreams, but their job as garbage men stands in the way. All while Mamado, the leader of Zambizy, learns he has twin children in Egypt.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as جلال
The series revolves around twin brothers played by (Youssef El-Sherif), one is a successful businessman with a prestigious social status, and the other is a magician who unites with the devil to achieve its goals, what will happen between them?
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An Intelligent marine mechanical engineer named Asfour was able to form a large company for Import, Export and Maritime Transport with branches in various countries of the world, and with it many affairs in his life. He discovers that he has kids of multi-nationalities from his multiple marriages.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Trapped in a toxic marriage, Nagla dreams that her husband died—only to later find his corpse at her doorstep. With the mystery engulfing her, she turns to her three sisters for a way out.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
After his dad's death, Omar's spoiled life unravels as he must revive the Torch Egyptian Club and raise a daughter he never knew existed. Between the chaos of football and fatherhood, his hardest game is just beginning.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The series revolves around an investigation novel. The novel provokes five different people to commit crimes in order to achieve a fair balance in their lives. The reader must begin investigating the novel to prevent these five crimes from occurring. Our main hero, Hisham Khairy, begins reading the novel and trying to decipher its code and secrets, on a journey full of adventures and surprises. Hisham begins his investigation and visits places and characters to solve the mystery until he reaches an advanced stage of the investigation that puts him in a challenge with the writer of the novel.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The series follows the life of Pharaoh (Khaled Saleh) and his journey to the top, but on that journey, Pharaoh gains many enemies. A group of people are lurking around Pharaoh, seeking to destroy him, but Pharaoh confronts them in a dramatic atmosphere full of suspense. Pharaoh's life becomes increasingly complicated due to the accumulation of problems, but he decides to resist in order to survive.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The events revolve around Omar Al-Nemr whose love for Hanady causes him many problems, especially since their fathers share an old secret that could threaten their love.
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Yassin is a playboy who vanishes in mysterious circumstances then slips into a coma. As the police investigate his disappearance, everyone around him becomes a suspect, from the girl who loves him obsessively, to his friend who is jealous of him, to his brother who is always fighting with him.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Asia (Mona Zaki) works in painting and fine arts. She always fights with her husband, making it impossible for them to communicate. Asia gets into an accident that causes her to lose her memory, which changes her life completely. She starts working at a nightclub as a dancer.
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The events of the series revolve around a comic framework about a monkey called (Massad) or (Messi), who is raised in one of the popular areas, and which the Egyptian authorities are recruiting to work with them in order to follow the activities of the American agent (Jenny), and at the same time trying to The CIA is also recruiting him to spy on Dr. (Noha) to find out what her research has ended on BSE.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as لواء ممدوح عمر
Police officer Hamza requests his transfer to the Anti-Narcotics Administration, following the killing of his brother by Suleiman Al-Muslimi. He monitors his brother Salem, the big drug dealer, who smuggled Suleiman and fabricated a charge for Hamza's wife.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ali, a self-made middle-class businessman, finds himself torn between two loves: The woman he's about to marry and his old flame who barges back into his life. What will his heart dictate?
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Heba is a TV presenter interested in broadcasting stories that touch on the everyday secret lives of women and the social injustices they face. Her frank style in broadcasting puts her husband's job and consequently her marriage in jeopardy.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
In the mysterious village of Al-Na'am, twin brothers Hammam and Hassanain clash over love, power, and control after the death of their grandfather.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Yousef Nabil
Malek is an aspiring football player in a small club. He soon proves his efficiency and skills, so he joins Al-Ahly club and leads the Egyptian national team to a victory after another.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as الخواجة
Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An industrious young man faces the test of revolution and displays a wide array of contradictory emotions, from fear to curiosity and from hope to bitterness.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Reem is a young political activist who works for an advertisement company. As she tries to uncover the truth behind the incide of the Battle of the Camel, she accompanies her friend Farah to Nazlet Al Seman where she meets and falls for Mahmoud, one of the people involved in the incident.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as اللواء شكري - مدير الامن العام
A group of prisoners breaks out of prison using an underground tunnel that leads them into a school. When they discover where they are, they decide to remain in the school until further notice, but Ms. Tam Tam pushes back against them.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Samir
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Ali Elzankory
A portrayal of the lives of four friends who have different dreams and aspirations; Ahmed falls in love with a girl he saw once, Sayed gets in trouble when he sells the laboratory animals, Abbas who is married to a woman that doesn't love him, and Ali who works in illegal operations.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The young director Hassan is preparing to film about the Khartiya group, a group of young Egyptians of both sexes who accompany tourists and roam with them and provide them with services for a handful of money.
Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Abdulsalam
Journalist suffers from recurring nightmares about an abandoned mansion.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Helmy has just graduated from college and is starting his career. He is shy and trusts everyone, which causes him to have social issues in contrast to his dream of a normal life and an honest society that does not lie. However, he encounters the truth and faces life with honesty and innocence, which causes society to turn against him, and those closest to him deceive him.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After killing an orphan boy called (Karim) with her car, (Mona) suffers a psychological shock that made her imagine that Karim lived and grew up. She writes a novel about him and imagined herself to be (Nour) the heroine of the novel,who loved (Karim) and wished to live with him.