Omar Sharif (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Omar Sharif, born Michel Demitri Shalhoub (April 10, 1932) is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films, most famously in Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl and Lawrence of Arabia. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won three Golden Globe Awards. Omar Sharif was born Michael Shalhoub in Alexandria, into a wealthy Lebanese-Egyptian Catholic family. Sharif graduated from Alexandria's Victoria College, then from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics. In 1955, Omar El-Sharif converted to Islam to marry Egyptian actress Faten Hamama. The couple had one son, Tarek El-Sharif, who appeared in Doctor Zhivago as Yuri at the age of eight.