Rosaline Elbay

About

Egyptian actress, writer and producer best known for playing Judy Goodwin in the Netflix TV miniseries Kaleidoscope. She also played Amani in the Hulu show Ramy, and Sarah in the TV series Qabeel. She sculpts and paints, selling her work on her official website. Her screenplay, Garlic, was developed at the Cairo International Film Festival's TV Development Workshop where she was also appointed "the face for young filmmakers." She won the 2019 Al-Wafd Critics' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best New Face for her role in Qabeel.

Before Fame

She was educated at University of Oxford. She has an undergraduate degree in classical archeology and a Master's in colonial history. Her first professional role was in a production of The Sound of Music at age 11. In 2018 she was cast in the film Diamond Dust, the adaptation of Ahmed Mourad's bestselling novel. She also appeared in music videos. 

Trivia

She is an advocate for refugees, hosting the 2019 El Gouna Film Festival in a dress made of recycled plastic hand-worked by refugee women. She has 80,000 followers on her rosaline.elbay Instagram. In October of 2021 she shared a piece that GQ Magazine had done on her. 

Family Life

She has a dog named Harrison Ford. 

Associated With

In 2022 it was announced she would star off-Broadway in the world premiere of Dodi & Diana opposite her Kaleidoscope co-star Peter Mark Kendall.