Dalia Mahmoud Quotb El Behery (Arabic: داليا محمود قطب البحيري‎; born October 15, 1970) is an Egyptian actress. She won the 1990 title of Miss Egypt, also won 27 place the Miss Universe pageant in Los Angeles in the same year.

Biography

She received a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels at Helwan University, where she worked as a tour guide, then as a prelude programs on the Egyptian Satellite Channel and modeling. Her first notable appearance was in a video clip of the song "Tegeesh neaeesh", by Ali El Haggar. Dalia’s modeling career paved the road for her acting profession. She has worked with huge stars such as Adel Imam in his film Al Safara fe Al Emara along with other comedians and singers including Hany Ramzy, Moustafa Amar and Khaled Selim.

Dalia said in one of her interviews on television that it wishes to embody the role of pharaonic Queen "Nefertiti" on the screen, denying rumors that she was reluctant about the portrayal of the Queen "Cleopatra" by the Syrian actress Solaf Fawakhirji.

In August 2008 she married Fred Morse, grandson of artist Farid Shawki,from his daughter the producer Nahed Farid Shawki. She had already been married before and given birth to a daughter named Khadija, who died at the age of 8 months because of a rare disease. She also has a daughter from her second marriage named Kesmat.

El Behery signed on as a Goodwill Ambassador for World Stroke Day in November 2010, helping to shed light on the awareness campaign to prevent and fight stroke. She has expressed her happiness selected for this position, saying she was looking for social work for a long time so as to help educate people from diseases that could affect them. Stroke is particularly widespread, affecting one in six people worldwide.