Rosaline Elbay Biography
Rosaline Elbay is an Egyptian actress on stage and screen, producer, and writer popular for her current role as Judy Goodwin in the new Netflix series Kaleidoscope. Previously, her roles of interest included Amani on Hulu/A24 films comedy-drama series Ramy and Sara on the MBC Masr mysterious crime series Qabeel.
Rosaline Elbay Age
Elbay was born in Cairo, Egypt on 21 November 1990. Therefore as of 2022, Rosaline is 32 years old.
Rosaline Elbay Height
Elbay stands at a height of 1.6 m, and her weight is about 53 kg.
Rosaline Elbay Family
Elbay has not disclosed her family members, parents, and siblings. Mostly because she does not necessarily find this information useful to the public. However, she grew up with her younger brother in Cairo, Egypt and no longer lives with her parents but meets them now and then. During an interview with Enigma Magazine, Rosaline stated that the nicest thing about moving back in with her family temporarily is that it ends up feeling like a holiday. She also enjoyed her time in quarantine with her family during the COVID tragedy. We will keep you posted should this information be available.
Rosaline Elbay Husband
It seems Rosaline has not yet revealed who her life partner is, or perhaps, she has not yet found the love of her life. We will keep tabs and update you soon. She also has no past record of having any children or possibly she has just maintained a low profile. However, in an op-ed in Mada Masr, an Egyptian online newspaper, Elbay said she had experienced domestic violence in her previous relationship. She currently resides in New York, United States.
Rosaline Elbay Career
Elbay grew up speaking English, Arabic, and French which led to a theory that she is British, as a product of colonialism. She read classics and archaeology at Oxford University completing her masters in Colonial History. Moreover, Rosaline studied at the Actors Studio in New York City with Elizabeth Kemp before moving to her two year Master of Fine Arts in Acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) in Hammersmith, London.
Rosaline’s early career was in UK theatre, most frequently in the co-productions with Thelma Holt, a British theatre producer and former actress. Elbay starred in Diamond Dust, the feature-film adaptation of Ahmed Mourad’s best selling novel in 2018. She also starred on Fork & Knife which also premiered at the 2018 El Gouna Film Festival, Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt. Additionally, Elbay was the subject of the music video for Fakra, by Massar Egbari, an Egyptian band that was famous during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. As Amani in the Hulu/A24 film comedy-drama series, Ramy since 2019, the film by Ramy Youssef was a Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning show. Season 2 of the film, co-starring Mahershala Ali, American actor, premiered in May 2020.
The same year in 2019, Rosaline also recieved critical praise for her Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region TV debut as Sara, the partner of protagonist Tarek aka Mohamed Mamdouh on MBC Masr’s Qabeel. She also won the Al-Wafd Critic’s Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best New Face. Furthermore, she also hosted the opening ceremony of the 2019 El Gouna Film Festival wearing a dress made of recycled plastic handworked by refugee women sponsored by the UNHCR. Since then, Elbay has continued advocating for the organisation and participating in the first MENA-region round table on The Role of Art and Culture in Addressing Displacement.
2020 Up to date
Described in MENA publications as an advocate for women’s rights, she has also contibuted to the cancellation of a 2020 concert by Saad Lamjarred, a Moroccan singer in subject of several rape accusations. Mada Masr published a personal op-ed by Elbay in response to the Egyptian MeToo movement in 2020. During the 40th and 41st Editions of The Cairo International Film Festival, Elbay was appionted as its face for young filmmakers. Further, Rosaline’s screenplay, Garlic was developed at the Festival’s TV development workshop. In MBC Masr’s 2020 series Forgetfulness (Luebet Al Nesyan) directed by Hani Khalifa, Elbay left the show mid-filming due to health reasons and rest of her role was shot with Asmaa Galal.
Rosaline revelead that she is starring in an animated role and executive producing an unnamed project in October 2021. The following year, same month, she starred off-Broadway in the world premiere of Dodi & Diana alongside her Kaleidoscope co-star Peter Mark Kendall
Kaleidoscope (Netflix Series)
Released on January 1, 2023, on Netflix, Kaleidoscope is an American heist drama TV mini-series created by Eric Garcia. Unique for its shuffled order, it centers around the master thief Leo Pap ( Giancarlo Esposito) and his crew trying an epic heist worth $7 billion. However, betrayal, greed, and other threats undermine their plans. Rosaline was announced as the principle cast member of the Netflix series, Kaleidoscope on September 2021. Her role as Judy Goodwin is the crew’s demolitions specialist, headstrong and independent, who is clever and talented enough to stay a step ahead of her mistakes. In the new Netflix series, Tati Gabrielle Hobson will star alongside:
Filmography
As a notable actress, here are some of the movies, films, series, and TV shows she has participated in:
- An Ideal Husband in 2010 playing Mabel
- The Activist (Medea) in 2011 playing Adele Medea
- The Picture of Dorian Gray in 2012 playing Sybil Vane
- Arabian Nights in 2012 playing Scheherezade
- Machinal in 2012 playing Helen (Young Woman)
- Twelfth Night in 2013 playing Olivia
- Danny and the Deep Blue Sea playing Roberta
- The Duchess of Malfi in 2015 playing Bosola
- Five Women Wearing The Same Dress in 2016 playing Georgeanne
- Tamar in 2016 playing Tamar
- Qabeel in 2019 playing Sara
- Ramy from 2019 up to date playing Amani
- Dodi & Diana in 2022 playing Samira (Diana)
- Kaleidoscope in 2023 playing Judy Goodwin
Rosaline Elbay Net Worth
Elbay’s estimated net worth is $5 million. Her primary source is her job as a on stage and screen actress, producer, and writer.
Social Media Accounts
Elbay’s is active on social media and she posts personal and work-related stuff from time to time. She has over 85.4k followers on Instagram, 19k on Facebook, and 6000 on Twitter.