Ahmed El Sakka

Ahmed Mohamed Salah El Din El Sakka (; born 1973) is an Egyptian artist. The son of theatre director Salah El Sakka. Ahmed El Sakka is known to be one of the most popular Egyptian actors in the last 25 years and his style of acting is known for action roles and doing dangerous scenes without any stunt double.

Early life El Sakka studied in Academy of Arts and graduated from The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1993.

Career Early in his acting career, he appeared in popular series like Al Nawa (1991) with Fardous Abdel Hamid, Alf Leila Wa Leila (One Thousand and One Nights, 1995) and Nesf Rabeea El-Akhar (1996) with Yehia El-Fakharany, W Man Allazi La Yoheb Fatma? (And Who Does not Love Fatima?, 1996) with Ahmed Abdelaziz and Shereen Seif El-Nasr, Tarweed El-Sharesa (Taming the Fierce, 1996) with Athar El-Hakim, a major role in Rodda Qalbi (1998), the adaptation of the original film Rodda Qalbi (Return My Heart, 1957), playing the role of Hussein, which was previously played by Salah Zulfikar in the original film, and a major role in Zawag Ala Wark Solifan (1998). El Sakka also appeared in a lot of films such as Leila Sakhina (A Hot Night, 1995) with Nour El-Sherif and Ayam El-Sadat (The Days of Sadat, 2001) with Ahmed Zaki.

The role that introduced him to a large audience was a co-starring role with actor Mohamed Henedi in Sa'edi fe el gama'a el amrekiya (An Upper Egyptian at the American University, 1998). It is an Arabic movie about a farmer who entered the American University in the city. The following year, he co-starred with Mohamed Henedi in Hamam fi Amsterdam (Hamam in Amsterdam, 1999), but in a larger role of the tough guy, which seemed to be his role in most of his hit movies afterwards. El Sakka also co-starred with Henedi in the two plays Alabanda (1998) and Afroto (1999). El Sakka's first starring role in cinema was in Short W Fanelah W Cap (Short, Fanelah & Cap, 2000) with Sherif Mounir, Ahmed Eid, Dalia Mostafa and the newcomer at that time Nour, achieving a huge financial success, with El Sakka winning Best Actor Award at Cairo International Film Festival. In 2001, he starred in Africano with Mona Zaki, which made a huge success and grossed 8 million EGP. El Sakka made a cameo role in Rasha Gareaa (Dare to give, 2001) and voiced Milo in the Arabic version of the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). His next films were all action movies where he played the main character. Probably, the most famous of these movies is Mafia (2002), which was a big success for El Sakka and is considered by many as one of the best action actors in the history of Egyptian movies. The film, which also starred Mostafa Shaban, Ahmed Rizk and Mona Zaki, grossed about 13 million EGP. In 2009, El Sakka played the titular role of Ibrahim Labyad, which was one of the Egyptian «popular culture films» that received criticism, praise, and mixed reviews about the nature of society in it. Although it was criticized for the scenes of blood and bullying, the film grossed 12 million EGP.

In 2010, El Sakka appeared in two movies, The Dealer and Ibn Alqonsol (The Consul's Son). The Dealer, which also starred Khaled El Nabawy and Mai Selim, grossed only 5 million EGP in 5 weeks before its drawing from cinema. El Sakka starred alongside Dorra in Papa in 2012, grossing 12 million EGP. In 2016, El Sakka co-starred with Sherif Mounir, Nour, Mona Zaki and Mervat Amin in 30 Years Ago and the film grossed more than 23 million EGP. It also starred Amir Karara, Ghada Adel and Mostafa Khater. In Ramadan 2017, El Sakka starred in Alhisan Al'aswad (The Black Horse), which also starred Yasmine Sabri and Shery Adel. He appeared in Harb Karmouz (Karmouz War) and Rahim, both in 2018. He starred in 2019 Ramadan series Weld El-Ghalaba (Son of the Poor) with Mai Omar and Injy El Mokkaddem.

El Sakka co-presented with Razan Moughrabi the 2020 Ramadan program Eghlab El Sakka (Beat El Sakka). He co-starred with Amir Karara in Nasl El Aghrab (Offspring of Strangers, 2021), which had a huge criticism and ridicule, making the United Media Services stop dealing with Mohamed Sami, the director and writer of the series. El Sakka played a major role in 200 Geneh (200 pounds, 2021), after 4 years of absence from the cinema since his movie Horob Edterary (2017). 200 Geneh grossed 8 million EGP only. El Sakka received GFF's Career Achievement Award at the fifth El Gouna Film Festival. In 2022, he starred in Al Ekhtiar 3 (The Choice 3) alongside Ahmed Ezz, Karim Abdel Aziz and Yasser Galal.

In 2024 El Sakka played a lead role in the television series El Atawla. The series found tremendous success.

An official promotional video for the second season of the series ‘‘Al-Atawla’’ dropped and within just 24 hours of being released on social media, video surpassed 30 million views, reflecting the show’s strong audience engagement and considerable anticipation for the new season. The second season gained success and was one of the most viewed television shows in Ramadan 2025.

Personal life El Sakka married the daughter of the make-up artist and hairdresser Mohamed Al Sagheer, Maha Al Sagheer, on November 17, 1999. They had 3 children, 2 sons and a daughter.

El Sakka known for his love of horses and their breeding, as he owns a lot of horses and has an excellent skills of horse riding and training it. He has Arabian horse stable in Nazlet El-Semman. His hobbies are: horse riding, shooting, football, singing, writing songs and traveling.

El Sakka is a Stunt performer and he got injured in a lot of his films. He declared in Lamis Elhadidy's program Kelma Akhira that while shooting Short W Fanelah W Cap and after he jumped in the sea, the sharks would have eaten him. He stayed fixed in his place in the water and didn't swim; because the shark think that the human who swims is similar to the dolphin, so it will attack on him. He continued that he remained standing in the water until they shot the scene.

Filmography Films

+Key Denotes films that have not yet been released Television Year(s) Title Role Notes 1991 Al nawwa (mini series) 1996 Nesf Rabie' Al-Akhar Essam 1996 Tareek Al Ahlam 1996 Wa Mn Allazi La Youheb Fatima? Emad 1997 Zeezinya Fathi 2006 The Cinderella 2009 Super Henedi Cameo 2010 Ayza Atgawez Raed 2012 Khotot Hamra Hosam 2013 Amir and the journey of legends Salah aldin 2017 Al hissan Al aswad Ahmed 2018 Raheem Ahmed 2019 Weld Al Ghalabah Issa 2021 Outsider bloodline Assad 2022 Yahya and kanouz The actor voices historical pharaonic figures, specifically King Ahmose I and King Thutmose III 2020-2022 The Choice Mostafa 2023 War Othman 2024 The last round (mini series) Yehia. Also nicknamed shageeh 2024-2025 Al atawla Nasser Podcast series

Year(s) Title Role Notes 2023 War Hero

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2002 The Feature Film Festival Award Best Actor Africano 2008 The National Egyptian Film Festival Award Best Actor The Island 2014 Dear Guest Award Best Actor of 2014 The Island 2 2016 Dear Guest Award Best Actor of 2016 30 Years Ago 2017 The National Egyptian Film Festival Award Best Actor 30 Years Ago 2019 Dear Guest Award Best Television Actor Son of the Poor 2019 Arab Star Festival Award Best Actor of the Arab World Son of the Poor