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Nadia Lotfi
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.
As actor
Legitimate Father
House of the Poisoned Family
Bloody Destinies
Where Do You Hide the Sun?
Waraa Al-Shams
Al-Aqmar
رحلة داخل امرأة
Caught in a Honey Trap
حبيبة غيري
A house without love
On Cellophane Paper
Badia Masabni
I'll Never Come Back
Mean yekdar al-aziza
The City's Lost Souls
الأخوة الأعداء
Army of the Sun
The Visitor
The Barrier
Faceless Men
City Lights
Wild Flowers
The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy
Oushaq El Hayah
Confessions of a Woman
El Ragol El Monaseeb
Kant Ayam
The Night of Counting the Years
Nashal raghm anfuh
Mama's Secretary