Nadia Lotfi

Acting Jan 3, 1937 Feb 4, 2020 (aged 83) Cairo, Egypt

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.

77 Acting Credits

Nadia Lotfi

Acting

The Night of Counting the Years

Saladin

For Men Only

My Father Is on the Tree

The Impossible

Unfaithful

The Sun Will Never Set

The Quail and Autumn

The Dark Glasses

Alkhataya

Enemy of Women

Mansion of Longing

A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood

The Seven Daughters

Soultan

How to Rob a Millionaire

Schoolgirl's notes

On Cellophane Paper

Seraa El Gababera

Ayam Bela Hob

Lost in Memories

Life is Sweet

A Marriage in Danger

Days Of Love