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Nadia Lotfi

Acting Born Jan 3, 1937 Cairo, Egypt 24 credits

Biography

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.

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Known for

Film

Saladin

as Louisa de Lusignan

WWE Main Event

as Zeena

Full filmography

  • Saladin (1963) as Louisa de Lusignan
  • ناس ولاد ناس (1993) as قدرية
  • The Night of Counting the Years (1969) as Zeena
  • أنف وثلاث عيون (1969) as أمينة\ميتو
  • The Dark Glasses (1963) as Madi
  • Waraa Al-Shams (1978) as Sohair سهير
  • Cairo at Night (1963)
  • The Impossible (1965) as ناني
  • Soultan (1958) as الصحفية خطيبة عصام
  • I'll Never Come Back (1975) as هدى راتب
  • My Father Is on the Tree (1969) as Firdous
  • A house without love (1976)
  • Faceless Men (1972) as Laila
  • Endama Nouheb (1967)
  • Three Stories (1968) as الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
  • Alkhataya (1962) as سهير
  • Caught in a Honey Trap (1977) as زيزي
  • Forever Yours (1959)
  • My Only Love (1960) as Mona
  • The Sun Will Never Set (1961) as Shahira
  • House of the Poisoned Family (1986) as سناء الرفاعي
  • A Bachelor’s Life (1963) as هدى
  • Al-Aqmar (1978) as بسيمة
  • Confessions of a Woman (1971) as نادية المحامية