Cyrine Abdelnour | |
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Born | 21 February 1972 |
Origin | Lebanon |
Genres | Arabic |
Occupations | Singer, actress , model |
Years active | 1992 – present |
Cyrine Abdelnour (Arabic: سيرين عبدالنور, born February 21,1972) is a Lebanese singer, actress, and model.
Her first album, Leila Min Layali, was released in 2004. She released her second album, Aleik Ayouni in 2006, with debut single Law Bas Fe Aini (If he looks in my eyes) becoming one of the most popular Lebanese songs of 2006. Abdelnour has also starred in Arabic TV serials and films since the late 1990s. In 2007 she married Lebanese businessman Farid Rahme.[1] In 2011 she gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Talia.[2]
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Cyrine was born in Beirut to an Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. She has one older sister and two brothers. She was educated in Saints-Coeur school in Lebanon, where she took a course in Fashion Design.
In 1992 she started her modeling career and modeled for the fashion designers Feliciana Rossi, Zuhair Murad, Abed Ahfouz, Renato Balestra, Mireille Dagher, and Thierry Mugler. In 2002 Abdelnour was awarded the title "Model of the World" at the Regency Palace Hotel in Beirut.[3][4]
In 1998 she had her first roles with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, with Smaa Kchaa (1998) and Sahat Sahteen (1999) being her first roles of note. In 2003 she starred in the Arabic series Dareb Khwet as Ebanati, winning the 2003 Murex d'Or award for best Lebanese actress for the role. She played another leading role in the series Mariana. In 2004 she starred in the serial Ghariba, and in 2007 the LBC series The Prisoner.[5] In 2009–2010 she did "Sarah" another Series on MTV Leb.
In 2008, she starred in the Egyptian film Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda and the Lebanese-Egyptian Smoke Without Fire,[6] and the following year appeared in the Egyptian TV series, Al Adham,[7] and the film Al Marouk (The Traveller) with Omar Sharif, which was shown at the 66th Venice Film Festival.[8][9]
In 2004 she released her debut album, Leila min El Layali. Her third album with her record label (Rotana) was released in 2009, titled Layali El Hob (Nights of Love).[10]
Film | |||
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Year | Film | Role | Notes |
2008 | Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda | ||
Smoke Without Fire (Beirut open city) | |||
2009 | The Traveller | ||
Television | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1998 | Smaa Kchaa | ||
1999 | Sahha sahtein tleteh | ||
2000 | Ghadan Yawmon Akhar | ||
2003 | Ebnati (My Daughter) | Main Role | Murex d'Or award for best Lebanese actress |
Dareb Khwet | |||
Mariana | |||
2004 | Ghariba | Main Roles Carla - Zaina | |
2007 | Sajina | Main Role Samar | |
Hawwa fi tarikh | Shehrazad | ||
2009 | Al Adham | Nadine | |
2010 | Sarah | Main Role as "Sarah" | Murex d'Or award for best Lebanese actress |