Hesham Selim (Arabic: هشام سليم; 27 January 1958 – 22 September 2022) was an Egyptian film and television actor.

[1] However, he took his schooling seriously and did not act again until he graduated, in which he studied Tourism in Helwan University.

[2] Beside his acting career, he hosted the TV show "Hiwar Al Qahira" on Sky News Arabia.

On 5 May 2020, he spoke on television about having a 26-year-old transgender son, in a rare public show of support for LGBT+ rights in the conservative Muslim majority country.

[4] On 22 September 2022, he died of lung cancer after several months in hospital.