[3] Magdy graduated from the law faculty at Ain Shams University, in Cairo, and then joined the El-Tamy Theater (Arabic: مسرح التامي) troupe and worked as an actor, assistant director and trainer.

[1] His first film was the independent six-minute 2007 Egyptian documentary work "Magra El-Ceil" (Arabic: مجرى السيل, "Riverbed").

He then took part in a workshop inhospitable native Cairo entitled "El-Zatt wa El-Madina, El-Qahira" (Arabic: الذات والمدينة, القاهرة , "The Self and the City - Cairo") which was produced by both the European Union and Egypt's El-Sammat Production Company, which involved the production of another Egyptian documentary called "Zeezo" (Arabic: زيزو).

His graduation project, "Keika Sagheera" (كيكة صغيرة , "Small Cake"), received an honor from the judging committee at the Algeria Independent Cinema Festival.

He has also acted in "’Asafeer El-Neel" Arabic: عصافير النيل , "Birds of the Nile") which is an adaptation of the novel by renowned writer Ibrahim Aslan.