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Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia () and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and took a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business.

Before making his English-language film debut with "Lawrence of Arabia", for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. His first movie was the Egyptian film The Blazing Sun () ("The Blazing Sun") in , opposite the renowned Egyptian actress Faten Hamamah whom he married in He converted to Islam to marry Hamama and took the name Omar al

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