Khaled El Sawy is an Egyptian actor. He was born in Alexandria in 1963. He studied law at Cairo University and began acting while still studying in the university theater, and after graduating in 1985 he studied directing at the Academy of Arts until 1993. El Sawy then began working as an assistant director on the film "Samaka wa Arbaa Orush" ("Fish and Four Sharks"), and then as a director on several satellite channels of the Nile International network. El Sawy co-founded the Egyptian Theater Lovers Foundation. He wrote the plays "Haflet Maganin" ("Crazy Party") and "Operetta El-Darfil" ("Dolphin Operetta"), for which he received the Teymour Award for theatrical ingenuity in 1991 and 1992 respectively.

El Sawy's career includes many prominent roles in cinema, including in the films "Emaret Yakubyan" ("Yakubyan's House"), "Keda Reda", "Cabaret", "El-Farah" ("The Wedding"), and "El-Fil El-Azrak" ("The Blue Elephant"). He has also starred in TV series such as "Tofahat Adam" ("Adam's Apple") and "Hatem Suleiman" ("Solomon's Ring").