Naglaa Fathy
Acting
Born 1951-12-21
Cairo, Egypt
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Fatma El-Zahraa Hussein Fathi was born on 21 December 1951. is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in 1967 and has played a role in over 80 films. She established a production company and produced films, including Supermarket (1990). The award-winning actress also wrote the screenplay for Tomorrow I Will Exact My Revenge(1980). Fathi started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at the age of 15 when she was approached by producer Adly El-Mowalid, while she was at the beach in Alexandria with her friends. She dropped out of school in 1967 to get involved in acting. Her career began in earnest and she starred in the 1968 Egyptian film Afrah, produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw her as a potential romance icon. Throughout the 1970s, she acted in roughly 15 films a year, predominantly romantic dramas. In the Egyptian film industry, she was only second to actress Faten Hamama in the number of romance films acted in, though not as popular since she was mostly given secondary roles to male characters. During the 1980s, Fathi largely departed from this role and began acting in more complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political dimensions.
She received an award for best actress for her starring role in El Garage (1995), where she played a deserted and impoverished single mother who lives inside a garage with her five children, all of whom she gradually gives up to other families as her health deteriorates. The film was based on a true story and Fathi described it as the "most difficult and painful" role she has had to play. According to writer Nagla El-Baz, the movie was a success in raising awareness about the issue of overpopulation.
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Acting
42 credits
Ebn Al-Shaitan
ألف ليلة وليلة
Please don't misunderstand me
Alexandria… Why?
Aietida'
End of the Road
الدنيا على جناح يمامة
My Blood, My Tears and My Smile
Love & Pride
Sonya and the Madman
Sabreen
The Three Friends
The Mirror
The White Dress
Dreams of Hind and Camilia
Farewell to Torment
My Husband’s Woman
A Nose And Three Eyes
Supermarket
Marriage for Half an Hour
The Devil is a Woman
End of the devils
The Iron Lady
My Sister
Abou Rabiea
The Law, Excuse Us
Sweet Trip
A Schoolgirl's Romance
Remember Me
Body and Passion
From home to school
5 شارع الحبايب
Eimra mutlaqa
Joys
Ghdaan saantaqim
The Judge and the Executioner
Lack of Evidence
Eashiqat nafsiha
حسناء المطار
Seraa All Mohtafeeen
Youth on Fire
Date with the Beloved
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First Year of Love
The Two Friends
Battal min Al-Janub
اللحظات الأخيرة
La waqt lil-demoue
Aqwa Min Al-Ayam
Al-Wafaa Al-Azeem
Disco Disco
No My Ex-Lover
Hob La Yara Al-Shams
Girls Must Get Married
Me In His Eyes
Below Zero
Journey to oblivion
Wa Tamdi Al-Ahzan
Hob Fauq Al-Burkan
Qamar Al-Zaman
Graveyards for Rent
Producing
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