Sharifah Amani

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Alan Lee Seow Meng (acting as Alan) and Sharifah Amani (acting as Orked) in the movie Gubra. (image taken from www.gubra.com.my)

Sharifah Amani Yahya (born: June 10, 1986, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian teen actress. She is most famous for acting as the character 'Orked' in two popular Malaysian films: Sepet and Gubra. In the latest installment of Yasmins Ahmad's Orked trilogy, Mukhsin, Sharifah Amani plays the adult version of Orked meeting her 10 year-old self (played by her youngest sister, Sharifah Aryana) in a surrealistic scene.

She also played a supporting role as a sexually abused teenager in the the Malaysian film Gol & Gincu. She also reprises this role later in the TV series based on the movie, as broadcasted on the Malaysian TV channel, 8TV.

In the Malaysian movie, Cinta, where she is one of ten actors playing 5 different couples portraying different situations based on the theme of love and relationships.

She is currently working on an upcoming movie called "Muallaf", where she will be acting with Sharifah Aleysha, another one of her younger sisters. This movie will also be directed by Yasmin Ahmad.

In 2006, she also hosted a make-over TV show with her elder sister, Aleya. She also likes to go shopping at 1-Utama, a major shopping mall in Malaysia, and her favourite bag is a black Adidas bag.

[edit] Controversy

In 2006 at the 19th Malaysian Film Festival, when accepting her award as Best Actress she said “"I sound like(I was) stupid, if I speak Malay, so I’ll speak English",”^[1]. She later claimed that she was misquoted when her statement was translated.