Nadia Lotfi profile
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Nadia Lotfi

3rd January 1937 Cairo, Egypt Acting

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.

75 Movies 2 TV Shows 77 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Army of the Sun poster
Army of the Sun 2nd November 1973 as متطوعة في مستشفى المنيل الجامعي
Kant Ayam poster
Kant Ayam 5th January 1970 as وفيه - زوجة جلال
Three Stories poster
Three Stories 12th February 1968 as الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
Enemy of Women poster
Enemy of Women 13th April 1966 as نادية عبدالفتاح المرصفي
For Men Only poster
For Men Only 16th November 1964 as Ilham/Mustafa إلهام (مصطفى)
Saladin poster
Saladin 25th February 1963 as Louisa de Lusignan
Soultan poster
Soultan 5th October 1958 as الصحفية خطيبة عصام