| Bio/Wiki | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Ahmed Mohamed Salah El Din El Sakka |
| Profession | Actor |
| Physical Stats | |
| Height (approx.) | 5' 10" (178 cm) |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Career | |
| Awards | • 2002- Best Actor Award at the Feature Film Festival Award for 'Africano' • 2008- Best Actor Award at the National Egyptian Film Festival Award for 'The Island' • 2014- Best Actor Award at the Dear Guest Awards for 'The Island 2' • 2016- Best Actor Award at the Dear Guest Awards for '30 Years Ago' (2016) • 2019- Best Television Actor Award at the Dear Guest Awards for 'Son of the Poor' (2019) • 2019- Best Actor of the Arab World Award at the Arab Star Festival Awards (2019) |
| Personal Life | |
| Date of Birth | 1 March 1973 (Thursday) |
| Age (as of 2025) | 51 Years |
| Birthplace | Cairo, Egypt |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Hometown | Cairo |
| College/University | • Academy of Arts, Cairo • Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Cairo |
| Educational Qualification | Graduate |
| Religion | Islam |
| Hobbies | Shooting, Playing Football, Singing, Travelling |
| Social Media | • Instagram • YouTube |
| Relationships & More | |
| Marital Status | Divorced |
| Family | |
| Wife/Spouse | Maha Al-Saghir |
| Children | Sons- Hamza Al Sakka, Yassin El Sakka Daughter- Nadia Al Sakka  |
| Parents | Father- Salah El Sakka (Theatre Director) Mother- Nadia  |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Ahmed El Sakka
- Ahmed El Sakka has been inclined towards acting from a young age. Ahmed grew up watching his father teaching acting and carrying out large theatrical plays.
Ahmed El Sakka’s childhood photo
- Ahmed El Sakka began his career with numerous uncredited roles in a lot of films and television series.
- Ahmed got recognition for his action roles and for doing dangerous scenes without any stunt double (a stunt performer who is specifically a skilled replacement, used for dangerous sequences in films and TV series).
- Ahmed is a stunt performer as well. He revealed in one of his interviews that during the shoot of his Egyptian romantic comedy film titled ‘Short w Fanelah w Cap’ (2001), he jumped into a shark zone to shoot a scene. He would have been eaten by a shark.
- He stated that, in that moment in the water, the local guide instructed Ahmed to remain still in the water and not to swim on the surface, because the shark thinks a swimming person looks like a dolphin, which might lead the shark to attack him. Therefore, throughout the scene, Ahmed El Sakka remained standing in the water until they filmed the scene.
- In 2002, while shooting the Egyptian action film titled ‘Mafia,’ he cut off his cruciate ligament and got a lot of wounds because of many sand dunes in a mountain. He also mentioned in one of the interviews that he almost drowned while shooting a scene.
- During the shoot of the 2001 Egyptian adventure comedy film titled ‘Africano,’ he had a scene in which he was setting a trap for a lion. He tied a dead chicken to a rope that led to a hole where the lion was supposed to fall. Then Ahmed was supposed to go down into the hole, but the rope holding him almost snapped, and he nearly died.
- In 2001, Ahmed El Sakka lent his voice to the character of Milo in the Arabic version of the American animated science fantasy action-adventure film titled ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire.’
- Since the early 2000s, Ahmed El Sakka has been considered one of the best action actors in the history of Egyptian movies.
- In 2004, Ahmed El Sakka lent his voice to a character in the Egyptian romantic comedy film titled ‘First Year of Deception.’
- In 2007, Ahmed El Sakka was cast in the Egyptian action thriller film titled ‘The Island,’ in which he played the lead character of Mansour. The film was based on the story of The Emperor of An Nikhaylah, Ezzat Hanafi.
- During the shoot of the film ‘The Island,’ he temporarily lost his eyesight after the splinters from the starting pistol entered his left eye, resulting in an explosion in his eyeball and its bleeding. He was taken to the hospital and underwent an urgent surgery, and after a few days, he began regaining his eyesight gradually.
- In the same year, while shooting a scene in the action comedy film titled ‘Taymour and Shafika,’ Ahmed’s clothes caught fire, and fortunately, he did not get any injuries.
- In 2009, during the shoot of the Egyptian action drama film titled ‘Ibrahim Labyad,’ he was shooting a scene in which his body was supposed to be set on fire, and he was wearing a suit for that shoot that isolated the fire for 11 seconds.
- After 11 seconds, Ahmed El Sakka didn’t hear the scene designer telling him to get down on the ground, so the scene designer came into the scene and hit him on the head until he fell to the ground and put out the fire, which saved Ahmed’s life.
- In 2014, Ahmed repeated his character of Mansour in the Egyptian action thriller film titled ‘The Island 2.’ The film grossed 36 million EGP, which made it the highest-grossing film in the history of Egyptian cinema at that time until another Egyptian film titled ‘Laf We Dawaran’ was released in 2016 and grossed 43 million EGP.
Ahmed El Sakka (extreme left) in a still from the Egyptian action thriller film titled ‘The Island 2’ (2014)
- In 2022, Ahmed El Sakka created his self-titled YouTube channel and started uploading videos about his acting roles. His YouTube channel holds more than 5 Lakh 10 thousand subscribers, as of 2025.
- In 2024, Ahmed El Sakka was cast in the Egyptian action film titled ‘Aserb: The Squadron,’ which was based on the true events of the Egyptian National Security Agency’s response to the 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya. Ahmed played the character of Ali El Masry in the film.
Ahmed El Sakka on the poster of the Egyptian action film titled ‘Aserb- The Squadron’ (2024)
- Ahmed El Sakka loved to spend time with animals, and he often shares photos and videos of his horses on social media. He works with horses and is inclined towards breeding horses.
- He owns a lot of horses and keeps them at his Arabian horse stable in Nazlet El-Semman, Cairo. Ahmed is an experienced horse rider as well as a horse trainer.
Ahmed El Sakka with one of his pet horses at his stable
- Ahmed El Sakka has been part of many Egyptian films, and some of them include ‘An El Eshq Wel Hawa’ (2006), ‘Ala Ganb Ya Asta’ (2008), ‘Ibn El Konsol’ (2010), ‘Sameer, Shaheer & Baheer’ (2010), ‘Karmouz War’ (2018), ‘200 Pounds’ (2021), and ‘The Spider’ (2022).
- Ahmed El Sakka occasionally smokes cigarettes.
Ahmed El Sakka smoking a cigarette
- Ahmed El Sakka has been part of many Egyptian drama TV series, and some of them include ‘Red Lines’ (2012), ‘The Actions Roundtrip’ (2015), and ‘The Black Horse’ (2017).
- He was named ‘The Knight of Egyptian Cinema.’
- In 2025, Ahmed El Sakka was cast in the second season of the Egyptian drama TV series titled ‘Al-Atawla.’
Ahmed El Sakka on the poster of the second season of the Egyptian drama TV series titled ‘Al-Atawla’ (2025)
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