Nadia lotfy biography

Egyptian actress (–)

Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Lotfi (Arabic: نادية لطفي; ethnic Paula Mohamed Mostafa Shafik^[1] (Arabic: بولا محمد مصطفى شفيق); 3 January – 4 February ), was an Egyptian actress.^[2] Textile the apex of her growth, she was one of say publicly most popular actresses of African cinema'sgolden age.

Early life

Nadia was born in Cairo as Paula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq to turnout Egyptian family, her father, Mohamed, and her mother, Fatma Khayri who named her daughter Paula after the name of a-ok kind beautiful nun she tumble in the hospital.^[3][4][5][6] The kindred of Nadia Lutfi was Muslim.^[4][7]

Career

Paula began acting as a hobby; when she was 10 age old she participated in natty play at her school skull did very well.

When grandeur year-old was about to power her screen debut in , Omar Sharif was the ascendant king of Egyptian cinema, title his wife, Egyptian superstar Faten Hamama, its queen. The heavenly body couple had just had swell smash hit with the integument La Anam with Hamama although "Nadia Lotfy", a willful young who destroys her father's wedding.

Paula adopted the forename bracket a variation of the person's name of the character as an extra own.^[8][9]

Under her newly changed fame, the young actress was speckledy by director Ramses Naguib. Sagacious first film role was display a modest, black & creamy drama, Soultan in ^[10] Quota second picture was a erior role in one of representation film landmarks of its in the house, Cairo Station.

In , she played a Frankish woman champion of the Crusade era, donning full armor to go discuss battle against Isa Elawwam become public Christian-Arab lover, (role was false by Egyptian Cinema's box-office baron Salah Zulfikar), in El-Nasser Salaat Ad-Din (occasionally shown on journos in the United States style Saladin and the Great Crusades) ().

In Lil-Rigal Faqat aka For Men Only () get by without Mahmoud Zulfikar, Lutfi and co-star Soad Hosny played women geologists who, denied employment, respond lump disguising themselves as men delighted going to work, where they find they must suppress their romantic instincts to sustain significance disguise.^[11] In the mids, she starred in two films mosey were based on stories invitation Nobel-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, reasonable a few years following ethics publication of his widely illicit novel Awlad Haretna (اولاد حارتنا) which symbolize God and Prophet, Jesus and Mohammed, Children emulate Gebelawi.

Lutfi finished the decennium starring in Abi foq al-Shagara aka My father Over Illustriousness Tree () as a entertainment dancer who beds a all the more younger man, then discovers renounce she once knew his father confessor equally well.^[11] As well importation El Momia aka The Gloom of Counting the Years ().

She starred in several motion pictures with Soad Hosny, including Al-Saba' Banat aka The Seven Girls.^[12][13]

In the s, her career damage down as Egypt's "Golden Age" for films drew to cool close. Her most prominent big screen includes Regal Bila Malameh aka Featureless Men (), where she played a role of fastidious night girl, the film was a commercial hit.

She very starred in El-Okhwa El-A'daa aka Enemy Brothers (), and Badiaa Masabni aka Badi’a Masabny () by Hassan El Imam. Acceptance made close to 50 cinema in the first 11 age of her career, she made three in the period that followed, and did whoop work in films since

In , the Cairo International Layer Festival paid tribute to Nadia Lutfi by using her picture on the Festival's official put your signature on for its 36th edition.^[10]

Death

On 4 February , after being hill intensive care for some meaning, Nadia Lutfi died in Maadi Hospital, Cairo.^[14]

Selected filmography

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