Youssra

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Youssra

Birth name	Soheir Mohammed Nessim
Born	March 10, 1955 (age 52) Cairo, Egypt
Spouse(s)	Khaled Selim
Notable roles	Christine in Omaret yakobean (2006) Nadia Safwan in Dam el ghazal (2005) Hoda in Assifa, Al (2000) Simihit in Mohager, al- (1994) Hind in Irhab wal kabab, al- (1993) Nadia in Iskanderija, kaman we kaman (1990) Mervat in Kaboos (1989) Atiya in Avokato, al- (1984) Nora in Ala bab el wazir (1982) Amal in Hadduta misrija (1982) Nagwa in Athkiya' laken aghbiya' (1980)

Youssra (Arabic:يسرا) is an Egyptian actress and singer. She was born Suhair Muhammed Nassim on March 10, 1955 in Cairo, Egypt.

She first appeared in the 1980 film Athkiya laken aghbiya (1980. English: Smartest yet Stupidest). Increasingly popular with audiences in Egypt and across the Arab world, she went on to co-star with leading actor Adel Emam in several films.

She has made a number of the serial television dramas popular during Ramadan, including 2005's Ahlam 'Adiya (Ordinary Dreams). She portrayed an enterprising con woman in what the English version of Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram called "a major departure from the star's usual Ramadan screen persona, which has consistently verged on the romantic and the demure."[1]

In 2006, she took a supporting role in The Yacoubian Building, a star-laden adaptation of the novel of the same name. The film is reported to have had the highest budget of any Egyptian production to date. Playing an entertainer working in a restaurant, Youssra, according to Variety, "effortlessly stirs old emotional waters when she sings 'La Vie en Rose.'" [2]

Youssra released her first vocal album in 2002.