His Excellency Abdullah El Miniawy, known as Maali Zayed, was born on November 5, 1953 and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The artist’s cousin, Maali Zayed, is the great artist, Hani Shaker.
The first films in which the great artist, Maali Zayed, participated in, was the movie “I lost my life, my son”, at the age of 21, and the film starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and directed by Raafat Al-Mihi. years and then they divorced.
As for her second marriage, it was with a doctor she met while she was undergoing surgery, and while she was filming a hot scene in the movie Abu Al-Dahab with Mamdouh Wafi, her husband, the doctor, came to visit her in the studio and found her in the arms of Mamdouh Wafi. And when that doctor saw his wife, the artist, Maali Zayed, in the arms of the artist, Wafi, he took her home and a big quarrel broke out between them.
The film crew waited six months for His Excellency Zayed’s hair to grow once more, to complete filming the rest of the film’s scenes, and when her hair growth was delayed, she had to use a wig in order to be able to complete the film. He made her husband angry and beat her, then shaved her hair and divorced her. In turn, the Egyptian actress, Maali Zayed, commented, in one of her press statements regarding the scene, sarcastic, “This is not acting,” pointing to what happened to her as a result of that hot scene of suffering. She started assaulting her before Her husband and then his separation from him, and the attack on her from the media as a result of her acting in the scenes of the movie Abu Al-Dahab.
The farm is the source of livelihood.
On the other hand, with His Excellency Zayed away from the spotlight, the “farm” was the source of her livelihood, as confirmed by her friend, the artist Hala Sedky, who lives next to her, where she was raising livestock, but in the recent period she felt a desire to sell the farm.
As for her staying away from acting, Hala made it clear that it happens with her entire generation and not just with His Excellency, especially since it is a stage in which you must accept that there will be a new generation that appears, and you have to either accept the matter or retire as some did, but it was difficult for His Excellency. Zayed and did not accept him, especially since some treated the big stars with “contempt”, according to Sidqi’s description.
She indicated that she refused a role in the series “Women’s Prison”, which was shown in one of the dramatic races in the month of Ramadan, and her last appearance was through the series “Heat Wave”. Before her death, she felt pain in her chest, so she called the artist, Hala Sidqi, who took her to a hospital. There, the doctor told her that she had breast cancer and that her condition was very late. She died on November 10, 2014 at the age of 61.
