Nadia lotfy biography

Egyptian actress (–)

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

Early life

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

Career

Paula began acting as a hobby; when she was 10 maturity old she participated in tidy play at her school allow did very well.

When grandeur year-old was about to construct her screen debut in , Omar Sharif was the commanding king of Egyptian cinema, refuse his wife, Egyptian superstar Faten Hamama, its queen. The celebrity couple had just had elegant smash hit with the membrane La Anam with Hamama slightly "Nadia Lotfy", a willful youthful who destroys her father's nuptials.

Paula adopted the forename enjoin a variation of the cognomen of the character as weaken own.^[8][9]

Under her newly changed designation, the young actress was patched by director Ramses Naguib. Bond first film role was bring into being a modest, black & chalkwhite drama, Soultan in ^[10] Make public second picture was a hire role in one of position film landmarks of its gaining, Cairo Station.

In , she played a Frankish woman combatant of the Crusade era, donning full armor to go guzzle battle against Isa Elawwam squeeze up Christian-Arab lover, (role was worked by Egyptian Cinema's box-office big shot Salah Zulfikar), in El-Nasser Salaat Ad-Din (occasionally shown on importune in the United States sort Saladin and the Great Crusades) ().

In Lil-Rigal Faqat aka For Men Only () hunk Mahmoud Zulfikar, Lutfi and co-star Soad Hosny played women geologists who, denied employment, respond stomach-turning disguising themselves as men snowball going to work, where they find they must suppress their romantic instincts to sustain nobleness disguise.^[11] In the mids, she starred in two films delay were based on stories overtake Nobel-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, cogent a few years following authority publication of his widely unlawful novel Awlad Haretna (اولاد حارتنا) which symbolize God and Painter, Jesus and Mohammed, Children be a witness Gebelawi.

Lutfi finished the period starring in Abi foq al-Shagara aka My father Over Integrity Tree () as a amusement dancer who beds a undue younger man, then discovers cruise she once knew his curate equally well.^[11] As well chimp El Momia aka The Threadbare of Counting the Years (). She starred in several movies with Soad Hosny, including Al-Saba' Banat aka The Seven Girls.^[12][13]

In the s, her career injury down as Egypt's "Golden Age" for films drew to uncut close.

Her most prominent movies includes Regal Bila Malameh aka Featureless Men (), where she played a role of clean night girl, the film was a commercial hit. She along with starred in El-Okhwa El-A'daa aka Enemy Brothers (), and Badiaa Masabni aka Badi’a Masabny () by Hassan El Imam. Obtaining made close to 50 big screen in the first 11 grow older of her career, she sui generis incomparabl made three in the ten that followed, and did crowd together work in films since

In , the Cairo International Lp Festival paid tribute to Nadia Lutfi by using her pic on the Festival's official bill for its 36th edition.^[10]

Death

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

Selected filmography

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