Fatma El-Zahraa Hussein Fathi (Egyptian Arabic: ٠اطمة
الزهراء Øسين ٠تØي‎, born 21 December 1951), popularly
known as Naglaa Fathi, 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 (Arabic: غدا سأنتقم‎), (1980).Fathi
started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at age 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 (Arabic: أ٠راØ‎, meaning "Joys"),
produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan
had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw
her as 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 more
complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political
dimension.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.Fathi was born to a Middle
classed family consisting of an Egyptian father of mixed
Egyptian-circassian origin and an Egyptian working mother from Fayoum.
She had previously been in two marriages and had a daughter named
Yasmine (Arabic: ياسمين‎) with her second husband. In 1992 she
married well-known Egyptian journalist and television presenter Hamdi
Qandil. While she stated that her first marriage, in 1969, was a
secret kept from her family, she described her second marriage in 1971
as a balancing act for her life amid her new fame and fortune and an
attempt to raise a large family. She said in a 2000 interview that
Qandil, her current husband, "is the first man who has fascinated me.
It is not easy to bewitch me, but he did. I feel like a student when
I'm with him: I discover new qualities in him every day."
الزهراء Øسين ٠تØي‎, born 21 December 1951), popularly
known as Naglaa Fathi, 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 (Arabic: غدا سأنتقم‎), (1980).Fathi
started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at age 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 (Arabic: أ٠راØ‎, meaning "Joys"),
produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan
had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw
her as 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 more
complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political
dimension.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.Fathi was born to a Middle
classed family consisting of an Egyptian father of mixed
Egyptian-circassian origin and an Egyptian working mother from Fayoum.
She had previously been in two marriages and had a daughter named
Yasmine (Arabic: ياسمين‎) with her second husband. In 1992 she
married well-known Egyptian journalist and television presenter Hamdi
Qandil. While she stated that her first marriage, in 1969, was a
secret kept from her family, she described her second marriage in 1971
as a balancing act for her life amid her new fame and fortune and an
attempt to raise a large family. She said in a 2000 interview that
Qandil, her current husband, "is the first man who has fascinated me.
It is not easy to bewitch me, but he did. I feel like a student when
I'm with him: I discover new qualities in him every day."
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