Naglaa Fathy
Birthday
December 21, 1951 (73 years)
Place of Birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known For
Acting
Biography
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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Movies with Naglaa Fathy
Alexandria… Why?
Aug 23, 1979
A Schoolgirl's Romance
Jun 4, 1969
The Three Friends
Jun 16, 1966
The Devil is a Woman
Sep 18, 1972
Bedour
Oct 14, 1974
Body and Passion
Mar 27, 1972
The Three Madmen
May 25, 1970
Joys
Sep 18, 1968
Hob Fauq Al-Burkan
Nov 9, 1978
Boy, Girl And the Devil
Dec 27, 1971
Graveyards for Rent
Nov 17, 1986
Sweet Trip
Jul 12, 1971