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May El Calamawy[2][3] (Arabic: مي القلماوي,[1] born October 28, 1986)[3][4][5] is an Egyptian-Palestinian actress[5][2][7][8] who has worked and resided in the United States since 2015.[9][3][5] She is known for her roles in the American television series Ramy as Dena Hassan,[10] and Moon Knight as Layla El-Faouly.[7]

May Calamawy
مي القلماوي[1]
Born	May El Calamawy[2][3] (1986-10-28) October 28, 1986 (age 35)[4][5] Bahrain[3][6]
Alma mater	Emerson College (BA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present
Notable work	Ramy Moon Knight

Early life

Calamawy was born on October 28, 1986, in Bahrain to an Egyptian father who worked as a banker,[3] and a Palestinian-Jordanian mother.[3][5] She has an older brother.[11] Raised mostly in Bahrain, she also spent six years living between Doha, Qatar, and Houston, Texas, before she was twelve years old.[8][5][3] Calamawy speaks English and Arabic.[3]

She was inspired to become an actress after watching the 1992 film Death Becomes Her when she was a child.[5][12]

Calamawy completed high school in Bahrain,[3] and at 17 she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study industrial design,[13] because her father wanted her to.[3] She then lived in Dubai for five years before moving back to the United States to pursue an acting career.[9]

She applied to Emerson College and told her parents, "If I get in, I'm going."[3] She was accepted and earned a B.A. in theatre studies.[8] Calamawy has also studied at the William Esper Studio in New York City.[8]

Career

Calamawy started her career acting in short films and used to be credited with her full name, May El Calamawy.[3][2] She later changed it to May Calamawy.[14] After attending college, she participated in the New York Arab American Comedy Festival.[3] From 2009 to 2014, she was dividing her time between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, acting in shorts and a TV pilot.[3]

Her first major film role was in Tobe Hooper's 2013 film Djinn, the first horror film to be produced in the United Arab Emirates.[3]

In 2017, she had a recurring role in the National Geographic miniseries The Long Road Home and guest-starring roles in The Brave and Madam Secretary.[14] The following year, she guest-starred in the CBS crime drama television series FBI.[14]

In October 2018, it was announced that she would have a recurring role in the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy, playing Ramy's sister, Dena Hassan.[14] In 2020, she had a voice role as Ellie Malik in the video game NBA 2K21.[15]

In 2021, she appeared in the film Together Together, with Ed Helms and Patti Harrison.[10] In January of the same year, it was announced she would appear in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight, which premiered on March 30, 2022,[10][16] where Calamawy portrayed Layla El-Faouly, an Egyptian archeologist and estranged wife of Marc Spector (portrayed by Oscar Isaac).[17] Layla was the first Arab character and superhero[18] in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[19]

In July 2022, it was announced that she will join the voice cast of Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as a guest star. The show is set to premiere on Disney Channel and Disney+ in 2023.[20]

Personal life

She has alopecia areata, and was first diagnosed with the condition when she was 22.[8] Her alopecia was incorporated into the storyline of her character Dena Hassan in Ramy during the show's second season.[8][11]

Since 2015, Calamawy has resided in the United States.[11]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Thursday	Kelly Spencer
2007	Temperance	Leila	Short
2008	Santa Claus in Baghdad	Hala	Short
2011	Hassad Al Möta	Tunnel Zombie	Short
	Paradise Falls	Jenny	Short
2012	A Genie Called Gin	Lucy	Short
2013	Djinn	Aisha
	Moi aussi je t'aime		Short
2019	The Bed	Woman	Short
	Passerby	Saba	Short
	1 Out of 30	Fatimah	Short
	Saeed	Sue	Short
2021	Together Together	Carly
	Meet Cute	Girl	Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Checking In	Raya	Episode: "Sneak Peek"
2017	Madam Secretary	Mona Alsnany	Episode: "Off The Record"
	The Brave	Mina Bayoud	Episode: "It's All Personal"
	The Long Road Home	Faiza	National Geographic miniseries
	BKPI	Ameena	Episode: "Mister Flasher"
2018	FBI	Nita Kayali	Episode: "Green Birds"
2019–present	Ramy	Dena Hassan	Main role
2022	Moon Knight	Layla El-Faouly	Main role
	Marvel Studios: Assembled	Herself	Episode: "Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight"
2023	Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	TBA	voice

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	NBA 2K21	Ellie Malik	Voice role

References

External links

• May Calamawy at IMDb
• May Calamawy at TV Guide
• May Calamawy at Rotten Tomatoes
• May Calamawy on Twitter

На других языках

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- [en] May Calamawy

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[es] May Calamawy

May Calamawy (Baréin, 28 de octubre de 1986) es una actriz egipcia-palestina[1] nacida en Baréin, más conocida por su papel en la serie de televisión Hulu Ramy como Dena Hassan,[2] y en la serie de Disney+ Moon Knight como Layla El-Faouly.[2][1][3]

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[ru] Каламави, Мэй

Мэй Эль Кала́мави (англ. May El Calamawy; 28 октября 1986, Бахрейн)[1] — египетско-палестинская актриса[2]. Наиболее известна своей ролью Дены Хассан в телесериале Hulu «Рами»[3]. Она также появилась в сериале Disney+ «Лунный рыцарь» (2022), действие которого происходит в медиафраншизе «Кинематографическая вселенная Marvel»[3].

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