Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1937-01-03
Day of Death
2020-02-04
Place of Birth
Cairo, Egypt
Nadia Lotfi
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.
Filmography (75)
Legitimate Father
1988
House of the Poisoned Family
1986
Bloody Destinies
1982
Where Do You Hide the Sun?
1980
Waraa Al-Shams
1978
رحلة داخل امرأة
1978
Al-Aqmar
1978
Caught in a Honey Trap
1977
حبيبة غيري
1976
A house without love
1976
Mean yekdar al-aziza
1975
Badia Masabni
1975
On Cellophane Paper
1975
I'll Never Come Back
1975
