A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
سامية أسعد
Birthplace:
Egypt
Samia Asaad is an Egyptian actress. She studied acting at the American University in Cairo, and started acting on stage while studying. She acted in plays in Arabic and English, and starred in the play “Al Less” (The Thied) on Rawabet Independent Theater, where she was noticed by film director and writer Dawood Abdel Sayyed who then cast her to star in his film “Rasayel El Bahr” (Messages from the Sea). She then appeared in the films “Asmaa” and “La Mo'akhza” (Excuse my French) with director Amr Salama. She also co-starred alongside Mona Zaki in the television series “Asia”.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.