毕业于皇家戏剧艺术学院，戏龄超过40余年，极擅长舞台剧的表演，演过的电影、电视剧不下百部。2004年，伊安麦西恩因演出HBO电视影集「Deadwood」而荣获金球奖「最佳男演员奖...
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and took a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business.
