Acting

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Woman

3 Jan 1937

Cairo, Egypt

Nadia Lotfi

Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi was an Egyptian actress. During the apex of her career, she was one of the most popular actresses of Egyptian cinema's golden age. She was born in 1937 in Cairo to an Egyptian father and a Polish mother. Her father was an accountant. Acting started as a hobby, when she was 10 years old she participated in a play at her school and did very well. Her first roles in Egyptian cinema were in Soultan (1958) and Cairo Station (1958), both in the same year. The latter brought filmmaker Youssef Chahine to international attention and acclaim when it was a competitor at the Berlin Film Festival. Her career progressed and she appeared in El saman wel karif (1967) (based on the book by Nobel-winning author Najeeb Mahfouz). She closed out the 1960s in Abi foq al-Shagara (1969) opposite Abdel Halim Hafez as a nightclub dancer who loves a much younger man.

The Night of Counting the Years

27 January 1969

Saladin the Victorious

25 February 1963

For Men Only

16 November 1964

My Father Is on the Tree

17 February 1969

The Sun Will Never Set

25 December 1961

The Quail and Autumn

13 February 1967

The Impossible

2 January 1966

The Black Glasses

29 April 1963

Alkhataya

4 March 1962

Unfaithful

15 November 1965