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Ali Al-Sebaa

actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4724626
Source-derived summary

Ali Al-Sebaa (Arabic: علي السبع; born May 4, 1951) is a Saudi Arabian actor, best known for his role in the Arabian series Fars Al-Janop. He has won thirty-two awards, including Best Actor of the Year in 1980 from the Culture and Arts Association.

His first role

Al-Sebaa started his acting career in 1974 in Saudi television. His first role was in the series Fars Al-Janop, which also featured Muna Wassef, Adnan Barkat, and Asad Fathah.

Personal life

Al-Sebaa is married and has six children.

Acting works

Plays

Anbar Ako billal (English: Anbar's Brother Billal)

Bayat mn lef (English: House of Life)

Zwage beljmlah (English: Wholesale Marriage)

Alkorah Al-motah (English: Illuminated Ball)

Al-Millionaire (English: Millionaire)

Series

Faras AlJanop in 1974 (English: South Knight)

Juha

Kaznah (English: Safe)

Hamath wq helo (English: Sweet and Sour)

Ayalt Abu Kalash (English: Abu Kalash's Family)

Al-Shatr Hussan (English: The Excellent Hussan)

Wagah bin Fhar (English: The Face of bin Fihrh)

Wadan ya sadiki (English: Goodbye, My Friend)

Aswar (English: Fences)

Al-Saknat Fe Klobna (English: The inhabitants in Our Hearts)

Movies

Al-Salaef (English: Turtle)

Alsagip

Keif al-Hal?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ali Al-Sebaa” as actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1980, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-05-04. The account is most persuasive where Al-Sebaa and actor can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4724626. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1980 and 1974.

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Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Ali Al-Sebaa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.