Hind Rostom
Acting • Born 1929-11-11 – Died 2011-11-08
Biography
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
Filmography
80 credits
Love Crime
Movie • 1955
Victory of Love
Movie • 1954
Tofahet Adam
Movie • 1966
Gamila
طريق السعادة
Movie • 1953
هند
A man and two women
Movie • 1966
My Life is Hell
Movie • 1979
Cairo Station
Movie • 1958
Hanuma
Sett El Banat
Movie • 1961
mounria
Love letter
Movie • 1954
Latifa
Struggle on the Nile
Movie • 1959
نرجس(الراقصة)
Women Can’t Lie
Movie • 1954
Nabwiya
Sleepless
Movie • 1957
Kawthar
Lovers of the Night
Movie • 1957
The Silent Love
Movie • 1958
The Great Love
Movie • 1957
Woman on the Margin
Movie • 1963
هانم
Big Teenager
Movie • 1961
Sonia
رجل بلا قلب
Movie • 1960
عايدة
Tuha
Movie • 1958
توحة
Like A Matchstick
Movie • 2016
Between Heaven and Earth
Movie • 1959
ناهد شكري
The Meek
Movie • 1975
The Victory of Islam
Movie • 1952
Boundless Love
Movie • 1960
نوسة لاعبة البيانولا
Love In The Darkness
Movie • 1953
My Beautiful Teacher
Movie • 1971
Nadia
Sweet Aziza
Movie • 1969
عزيزة
the eternal love
Movie • 1965
امينة
The Flirtation of Girls
Movie • 1949
كومبارس صامت
الحب الأخير
Movie • 1959
سميرة
Blood on the Nile
Movie • 1961
Ghalia
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
Movie • 1963
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
Word of Honour
Movie • 1973
ناهد
Awattif
Movie • 1958
Struggle with life
Movie • 1957
Samira - سميرة
Eshaet Hob
Movie • 1960
Hind Rostom
Son of Hamido
Movie • 1957
عزيزة
It happened one night
Movie • 1954
Banat Al-Lail
Movie • 1955
A Husband’s Confession
Movie • 1964
Buthaina - بثينة (بوسة)
Baba Amin
Movie • 1950
Sonia
The Den of the Wicked
Movie • 1972
فايزة
Return My Heart
Movie • 1957
الراقصة كريمة
My One And Only Love
Movie • 1957
نانا (الراقصة)
Coward in Love
Movie • 1975
Soad Hanim
Three Thieves
Movie • 1966
Amina, the butcher's wife
The Surprises Motel
Movie • 1959
نبلة الراقصة
Kiss Me in the Dark
Movie • 1959
لولا
Al-Jasad
Movie • 1955
The Greatest Kid in the World
Movie • 1972
سامية
Bufakkar filli nassini
Movie • 1959
سوسن
Huwa wa el nessaa
Movie • 1966
فيفي
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Movie • 1957
Fathiya
طريق الأبطال
Movie • 1961
نور عبدالله
The Nun
Movie • 1965
Hoda/Sonia
The Charmer
Movie • 1958
Aziza
The Big Brother
Movie • 1958
Rawhaya
Owner of Few Piasters
Movie • 1949
فواكة
El Khouroug Min El Guana
Movie • 1967
Anan
The Single Husband
Movie • 1966
Azhar
El Dam Yehen
Movie • 1952
El naas makamat
Movie • 1954
Daughter of Riad Pasha
Al-Liqaa' Al Akhir
Movie • 1953
Banat Hawaa
Movie • 1954
One of the secretaries
Shayateen El Leyl
Movie • 1966
Rawheya
Sayed Darwish
Movie • 1966
جليلة
Men in the Storm
Movie • 1960
Aziza
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
Movie • 1958
Teama
Soul and body
Movie • 1948
Fatouma
Movie • 1961
Fatima
The second groom
Movie • 1967
Wafaa Hanem
دلوني يا ناس
Movie • 1954
سنية
Me, My daughter and Love
Movie • 1974
Desire and Loss
Movie • 1972
ناهد
Love and madness
Movie • 1948
Narges
Movie • 1948
الخياطة
نساء وذئاب
Movie • 1966
مسعده / لوليت
Chahine…Why?
Movie • 2009
Self
Queen of the Night
Movie • 1971
كريمة
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Movie • 1961