The Icon: The Reborn Of Ogy Ahmad Daud...

Assalamualaikum W.B.T…
Hye! Well, I was having quite a moderate week, spending my whole week at home and had sometime for sightseeing with my old buddy. While having few times of relaxing, there were few ideas came across my mind. And in this post, I would like to introduce you to a new column that will be bloomed in this blog of mine. It`s called The Icon. It will be appeared twice a month. So, let me brief sket pasal column ni… column ni mengandungi articles and issues on famous success people in their very own career. These people came with their very own way of living and we`ll follow their steps to achieve their glory. So, for this issue, we`ll be talking about a very young actor who has take Malaysia by storm with her talent, Miss Sharifah Amani Syed Zainal Rashid Al- Yahya.

Sharifah Amani Syed Zainal Rashid Al-Yahya (born June 10, 1986, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian actress. She is the second daughter of veteran Malaysian actress, Fatimah Abu Bakar.[1] Sharifah is of Malay-Chinese-Arab-Bengali parentage[2] and speaks fluent English, Malay and some Hindi. As a teen writer for the New Straits Times' YouthQuake, Amani covered assignments like the Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla press conference, concerts by Bollywood stars, Deep Purple and the 3rd IIFA Awards in Genting Highlands. Sharifah has also dabbled in theatre, having acted as Ophelia in the Bangsar Actors Studio’s Hamlet (2005), directed by Faridah Merican.[3]
She is most famous for portraying the character Orked in Yasmin Ahmad's Orked trilogy. The first two films are Sepet and Gubra. In the latest installment, Mukhsin, Sharifah Amani plays the adult version of Orked who "meets" her 10 year-old self (played by her younger sister, Sharifah Aryana).[4]
She previously played the supporting role as a sexually abused teenager in the film Gol & Gincu.
She co-stars in the Malaysian film, Cinta, where she is one of ten actors playing 5 different couples portraying different situations based on the theme of love and relationships. Her mother co-stars with her in this movie.[5]
In the Cantonese Malaysian horror movie, Possessed, she plays a supporting role as Fara, the assistant and close friend of a Chinese girl, Lisu, who migrated to Malaysia to make it big as a singer. Unfortunately, Lisu is brutally murdered and Fara, as the only witness of the murder, goes insane and is committed to a mental asylum.[3]
She is currently working on an upcoming film Muallaf, where she will be acting with Sharifah Aleysha, another one of her younger sisters. This film will also be directed by Yasmin Ahmad.[6] In order to fulfill her role in the movie, she shaved her head bald because in one of the scenes in the movie her character's head is shaved by the father for being too 'wild'.[7]


Television
Following the relative success of Gol & Gincu[8] in the supporting role as a sexually abused teenager, she reprises this role later in several guest appearances in the TV series based on the movie (Gol & Gincu The Series), as originally broadcasted in 2006 on the Malaysian TV channel, 8TV.
In 2006, she also hosted a make-over TV show (sponsored by Revlon Silky Girl) on NTV7 with her elder sister, Sharifah Aleya.
In March 2007, TV3 (Malaysia) has started broadcasting the dramedy series Emil Emilda in their Samarinda timeslot, starring Sharifah Amani as the lead role of Emilda.[9] She stars in title role of Emilda, a bespectacled geeky filing clerk working in a fictitious TV station, where she catches the attention of the CEO due to her hard-working nature and passion for the broadcasting industry. The CEO finds out his long-lost son, Emil/Boboi who has been missing following a car accident 20 years ago has been sighted. En route to follow-up on the information regarding his son, he dies when his private helicopter crashes. It is then revealed in his will that he has chosen Emilda to be his temporary replacement as CEO until his son can be located to be his rightful heir.[10]
Controversy
In 2006 at the 19th Malaysian Film Festival, when accepting her award as Best Actress she said “"I sound, like, stupid, if I speak Malay, so I’ll speak English",”[11]. She later claimed that she was misquoted when her statement was translated by the Malay media.
List of films
Sepet (2004)
Gol & Gincu (2005)
Gubra (2006)
Cinta (2006)
Possessed (2006)
Puaka Tebing Biru (2007) [12]
Mukhsin (2007)
Muallaf (2008)


List of dramas
Emil Emilda (2007)
Sinderela (2008)
Awards
18th Malaysian Film Festival 2005
Most Promising Newcomer Award (Sepet)
19th Malaysian Film Festival 2006
Best Actress Award (Gubra)
Well, overall, after did few researches of her, I`ve realize that she has few similarities to Malay`s Legend Actress, Ogy Datuk Ahmad Daud. For me, Amani is a reborn of Ogy. Based on few same aspects that they have (physically and emotionally). It can be seen from their backgrounds, where they are both came from a family of artists. They are petite, small, but meletup with their very own dahsyat talent. They are stylish and fashionable, straight forward spoken, and multi award winners. Amani has her very own talent that that can really be carved well in order to be a legend in future… - QCA