Naglaa Fathy
Acting • Born 1951-12-21
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.
Filmography
82 credits
Disco Disco
Movie • 1994
First Year of Love
Movie • 1976
Body and Passion
Movie • 1972
هدى
أوهام الحب
Movie • 1970
Nadia
Battal min Al-Janub
Movie • 2000
Ghdaan saantaqim
Movie • 1983
Love... Sweeter Than Love
Movie • 1975
ليلى - المربية
The Judge and the Executioner
Movie • 1978
ناهد كمال فهمي
The Two Friends
Movie • 1970
Hayati
Movie • 1970
Mona Hassan
A Schoolgirl's Romance
Movie • 1969
Duha
5 شارع الحبايب
Movie • 1971
Maha Adel's fiancée
The Lottery Ticket Thief
Movie • 1970
حسناء المطار
Movie • 1971
Amal
End of the devils
Movie • 1970
زهرة
Bedour
Movie • 1974
Bedour
The Mirror
Movie • 1970
Karima
Journey to oblivion
Movie • 1978
Aietida'
Movie • 1982
أمال
Wa Tamdi Al-Ahzan
Movie • 1979
La waqt lil-demoue
Movie • 1976
End of the Road
Movie • 1968
Jamila
Qamar Al-Zaman
Movie • 1976
Soul lover
Movie • 1973
Aida
Shadows on the Other Side
Movie • 1971
Hob Fauq Al-Burkan
Movie • 1978
اللص
Movie • 1990
عزيزة
Ihzaru Hazehi Al-Maraa
Movie • 1991
A Nose And Three Eyes
Movie • 1972
Nagwa
Dreams of Hind and Camilia
Movie • 1988
Camellia
Ebn Al-Shaitan
Movie • 1969
Saadia
Marriage for Half an Hour
Movie • 1969
Self - Guest of Honor
Sonya and the Madman
Movie • 1977
Sonyah
Girls' Secrets
Movie • 1969
Suniya
My blood, My Tears and My Smile
Movie • 1973
Nahed
The Law, Excuse Us
Movie • 1985
هدى عبد الهادي عمار
Hob La Yara Al-Shams
Movie • 1980
Aqwa Min Al-Ayam
Movie • 1979
Remember me
Movie • 1978
Mona
Eashiqat nafsiha
Movie • 1972
Dalal
Joys
Movie • 1968
بثينة بستانى
Sabreen
Movie • 1975
Farewell to Torment
Movie • 1981
Layla
Seraa All Mohtafeeen
Movie • 1969
ليلى الغرباوي
El Banat Lazem Ttgawz
Movie • 1973
صافي
The Devil is a Woman
Movie • 1972
Yasmine
Al-Aqwiyaa
Movie • 1980
Nadia
Then the sun rises
Movie • 1971
فايزة
Supermarket
Movie • 1990
Amira Abdul Majeed
Alexandria… Why?
Movie • 1979
Sarah Sorel
Concerto in Darb Saada
Movie • 1998
Sonia
The White Dress
Movie • 1975
Huda / Dalal
Abou Rabiea
Movie • 1973
ياسمين إسماعيل فخر الدين
Madness of Love
Movie • 1977
Lack of Evidence
Movie • 1987
Fawziya
The Garage
Movie • 1995
The Three Friends
Movie • 1966
Zahra
The Unknown
Movie • 1984
Madiha
The Most Beautiful Days of My Life
Movie • 1974
Hoda Jamal Kazem
Saad the Orphan
Movie • 1985
My Sister
Movie • 1971
Sawsan
Al-Wafaa Al-Azeem
Movie • 1974
Love & Pride
Movie • 1972
زيزي
Rawaat El Hob
Movie • 1968
هيام
No My Ex-Lover
Movie • 1976
Al Sharida
Movie • 1980
ليلى
Date with the Beloved
Movie • 1971
Nahed Shawkat
The Three Madmen
Movie • 1970
Samira
Sweet Trip
Movie • 1971
Zahra
From home to school
Movie • 1972
سهير
Boy, Girl And the Devil
Movie • 1971
Fayza
Youth on Fire
Movie • 1972
Nadia
Eimra mutlaqa
Movie • 1986
سلوى
Graveyards for Rent
Movie • 1986
Me In His Eyes
Movie • 1981
The Iron Lady
Movie • 1987
Magda Abdel Sattar
My Husband’s Woman
Movie • 1970
Wafaa
Below Zero
Movie • 1990
Eshtibah
Movie • 1991
Girls Must Get Married
Movie • 1973
ألف ليلة وليلة
TV • 1984
شهرزاد
أرجوك لا تفهمني بسرعة
TV • 1973
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