Hana Shiha

Hana Shiha (Egyptian Arabic: هنا شيحه; born 25 December 1980) is an Egyptian actress. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Egypt, majoring acting and directing. She started her career in the hit series "el bar el Gharbi" in 2002 while she was still a student Hana Shiha was born on 25 December 1985 in Beirut, Lebanon to an Egyptian-Lebanese artistic family of 4 sisters: "Hala Shiha", "Maya Shiha" and "Rasha Shiha".

Hana's father, Ahmed Shiha, who is an Internationally proclaimed popular Egyptian painter, and Lebanese mother Nadia Zeitoun both loved arts and saw blossoming talents in there young girls, encouraged her 4 daughters to be more creative, taking piano, ballet lessons as children.

Hana fell in love with reading too, taking it up from her mother, she finished reading the French, British and Egyptian literature, at the age of 16.

In her adolescent years, reading edged out the other arts and became a kind of refuge—as her classmates sought out fun in the sun, the fair-skinned Hana retreated to read more books and gain more knowledge.

Pursuing her passion for stories, cinema and performing, by enrolling in the academy of arts, receiving a bachelor's degree from the high institute of Dramatic arts, majoring acting & directing.