Mona Zaki, an icon of creativity and innovation in the world of Egyptian art

The beautiful Egyptian artist Mona Zaki, the owner of the wonderful works that entertained us with her distinctive performance, combined and embodied the diverse and different roles, the roles of tenderness, love, romance, social, and comedy within the drama roles, and her history is full of a significant bouquet of films, series, and plays that achieved great success when they were shown and are still continuing to entertain viewers whenever they are shown repeatedly at any time, as she is a hard-working artist who is always innovating, and does not stick to certain roles or a certain form.

Mona Zaki's upbringing She was born in 1976 in Cairo Governorate to an Egyptian family. Her father worked in medicine and due to his medical profession he was always on the move. She then joined the Faculty of Media at Cairo University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Media and began her artistic career.

Mona Zaki's artistic career The first work of the artist Mona Zaki was her distinguished participation in the series “The Poisonous Light” in 1997, and the following year directly the famous movie “Laugh, the Picture Will Come Out Nice” with the wonderful artist and distinguished genius actor, the late Ahmed Zaki, to present in the same year the movie that caused a stir at the time in cinemas despite the beginnings of all the artists in it, who all became big first-class stars, and in the same year she participated in the movie “The Delicious Killing” with a group of great artists, all of them Mervat Amin, Elham Shaheen, Khaled El Nabawy and Samir Sabry, to be a year full of success and achievements for her despite the beginning of her path, then the artist began to shine and rise little by little until she became the brightest star of her generation until this time.

Her personal and family life She has a great love story with the Egyptian comedian Ahmed Helmy, as they are one of the few marriages that have continued in the artistic community. They are famous for their wonderful relationship, which is an example of respect, appreciation, and mutual love between the two parties. This marriage took place in 2002 and has continued until now, with the birth of three children, two boys and a girl, Lily, Salim, and Younis, who is older than Lily.

Mona Zaki's artworks, movies and series We continue with the rest of the artistic works and the artistic career full of artistic achievements of the star Mona Zaki. In 1999, she participated with Mustafa Qamar in the movie “First Love”, and in the following year 2000, she participated in the movie “Omar” with her husband, the artist Ahmed Helmy, and the artist Khaled El Nabawy. In the same year, she participated in the movie “Why Did You Make Me Love You Too” with her husband, the comedian Ahmed Helmy, as well as Karim Abdel Aziz.

Then came the following year, 2001, which was full of diverse works, the first of which was the film “Ayyam El Sadat” by the late great Ahmed Zaki, the action film “Africano” with Ahmed El Sakka and Hassan Hosny, and the film “Faris Dahr El Kheil” with the great artist Laila Fawzy. The following year, 2002, came, to participate again with the artist Ahmed El Sakka in the lead role in the action film “Mafia” and the artist Mustafa Shaaban.

The following year, in 2003, she participated in the movie “From the Look of an Eye” with a group of stars, most notably Amr Waked, Sherif Ramzy, Basma, Maha Abu Auf, and others.

In the same year, she starred in the famous film Sahar El Layali, in which her husband, the artist Ahmed Helmy, participated with Khaled Abol Naga, Sherif Mounir, Jihan Fadel, and Fathy Abdel Wahab.

The following year, the great artist Abla Kamel participated in the lead role in the movie My Aunt France 2004, and in 2005 she starred in 3 movies, the first of which was the movie Blood of the Gazelle with the late Nour El-Sherif, Yousra, and Abdel Aziz Makhion, the movie Dreams of Our Life with Mustafa Shaaban, Menna Shalaby, and Ramez Galal, and the movie Abu Ali with the artist Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El-Sawy, and Talat Zakaria.

In 2006, she participated in a film about love and passion with Ahmed El Sakka, Tarek Lotfy, and Menna Shalaby, and the film Halim in the same year with the late great artist Ahmed Zaki.

In 2007, she starred in the famous film "Timur and Shafika" with Ahmed El Sakka, and in 2009, she participated in the film "Awlad El Am" with Karim Abdel Aziz and Sherif Mounir.

She shines in the movie "Tell Me, Shahrazad".

In 2011, she participated with Ahmed Helmy in the movie 18 Days, and in 2015, Asser Yassin and Amr Saad starred in the movie Aswar Al Qamar. She excelled in the movie 30 Years Ago in 2016 with a group of famous stars Ahmed El Sakka, Mervat Amin, Sherif Mounir, and Ragaa El Gedawy. In 2020, she participated in the movie The Black Box, and in 2022, she participated in the movie Ashab Wala Aaz. With a significant collection of series and plays, such as the play “Keda Ok”, the play “Afroto”, and “In Classical Arabic”, which was its beginning, and “Ya Musafir Wahdak”.

Her series include Layali El Helmeya, Cinderella, Afrah El Qobba, Asia, El Dow El Shared, and El Marwaj A3 Tareeqy. We certainly cannot forget her latest series, which was produced and shown in Ramadan 2021, Newton’s Game 2021, with artist Mohamed Mamdouh and artist Mohamed Farakh, in which she made the decision to have her child in America, which resulted in confrontations and problems for her and her husband.

She also entertained us with the series Under Guardianship in 2023, and we were all affected by the end of the series, her character, and the difficulties she faced, as we were absorbed in every event and detail in the series.

She has many other series and works, and she also had roles in radio series and dubbing, so she participated in many radio series.

Mona Zaki's new movie Mona Zaki's latest movie is Journey 404, which achieved great success when it was shown in Egyptian and Arab cinemas and also when it was released on platforms. It tells the story of a girl who tries to repent for her past and walk in the paths of goodness and righteousness with all her strength. Zaki wears the hijab in most of the movie's scenes and appears in the role of a girl who wore the hijab and repented from sins, but all circumstances prevent her from doing so. All the characters stand against her to prevent her from righteousness and remind her of her past, destroy her life and force her to follow paths she wants to stay away from. Will she resist all the pressures or not? This is what we will know by watching this movie.

Filming of her new movie "Al Set" is scheduled to start in the coming days. The movie is directed by Marwan Hamed.

The most beautiful looks of Mona Zaki Her appearance at the Paris Fashion Festival was widely echoed, as she had an elegant, attractive and simple appearance with lightness of movement and grace in a blue dress distinguished by its beautiful design, long from the back and with a tail and open from the front at the legs.

As for Mona Zaki's recent appearance, she has chosen black as the king of all her dresses during this period, even when her movie "Journey 404" was shown. It was a black dress with long sleeves, one of which was transparent, and the entire dress was long and wide with black high-heeled shoes. The dress was the work and creativity of the creative Elie Saab, who this time was not the first time they had worked together, as he had designed many distinctive looks for her before.

In this article, we have presented to you a very simple and brief overview of the great Egyptian artist Mona Zaki, who has a rich history and is diverse in her roles and creative in them at the same time. One article or another will not suffice to talk about her, as she is one of the creators and pioneers of her generation in art, and until now she has a prestigious position that no one can approach, even her presence as a guest of honor only in any work adds to it.