ACTOR

Taheyya Kariokka

1915 - 1999

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Taheyya Kariokka (Arabic: تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Carioca (born Badaweya Taheyya Mohamed Ali Elnedany Kareem (Arabic: بدوية تحية محمد علي النيداني كريم)), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taheyya Kariokka has received more than 161,647 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Taheyya Kariokka is the 2,852nd most popular actor, the 435th most popular biography from Egypt and the 9th most popular Egyptian Actor.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Taheyya Kariokka ranks 2,852 out of 13,578. Before her are Norman Lloyd, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lenny Montana, Carol Lynley, Eric Porter, and Michel Aumont. After her are Ágnes Esterházy, Cobie Smulders, Patrick O'Neal, Jacques Sernas, Jason Alexander, and Ted Cassidy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Taheyya Kariokka ranks 132. Before her are Vítězslava Kaprálová, M. F. Husain, John Tukey, Hans Christian Blech, Wilhelm Gliese, and Zulfiya. After her are Norman Wisdom, Kurt Aland, Amedeo Biavati, Karl Leisner, Henner Henkel, and Vladimir Zeldin. Among people deceased in 1999, Taheyya Kariokka ranks 133. Before her are Milt Jackson, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Jacques Lecoq, Riccardo Freda, Bing Xin, and Susan Strasberg. After her are Ian Bannen, Igor M. Diakonoff, Maxim Munzuk, Louis Boyer, Madeline Kahn, and Umberto Maglioli.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Taheyya Kariokka ranks 435 out of 642. Before her are Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi (1838), Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (1893), Pope Maximus of Alexandria (250), Riccardo Freda (1909), Naguib Sawiris (1954), and Domitius Domitianus (300). After her are Doria Shafik (1908), Al-Ashraf Sha'ban (1353), Bat Ye'or (1933), Majida El Roumi (1956), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), and Zakaria Mohieddin (1918).

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Among ACTORS In Egypt

Among actors born in Egypt, Taheyya Kariokka ranks 9. Before her are Marika Rökk (1913), Adel Emam (1940), Shadia (1931), Soad Hosny (1943), Hind Rostom (1929), and Zubaida Tharwat (1940). After her are Georges Guétary (1915), Julian Fellowes (1949), Nadia Gamal (1937), Naima Akef (1929), Amr Waked (1973), and Mena Massoud (1991).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Mother of the Bride
زينب
This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
Dec 23rd 19636.6 / 10
Watch Out for Zuzu
Naema Almaza
A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and thus becomes conflicted between her two lives.
Nov 6th 19726.5 / 10
The Leech
شفاعات
A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
Jan 9th 19567 / 10