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Amir El-Masry

Egyptian actor (born 1990)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Amir El-Masry is an Egyptian actor. He won a Scottish BAFTA for his performance in the film Limbo (2020) and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. He was named a 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Amir El-Masry” as egyptian actor (born 1990). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amir, El-Masry and Egyptian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amir, El-Masry and Egyptian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Amir El-Masry”, the useful work is to connect “egyptian actor (born 1990)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2021.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “Amir El-Masry” 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.