Nadia Lotfi
Born: 1937-01-03 in Cairo, Egypt
Died: 2020-02-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1993
- ناس ولاد ناس as قدرية
1988
- Legitimate Father as شريفة
1986
- House of the Poisoned Family as سناء الرفاعي
1982
- Bloody Destinies as Horeya حورية
1980
- Where Do You Hide the Sun? as صوفيا
1978
- Waraa Al-Shams as Sohair سهير
- رحلة داخل امرأة as آمال
- Al-Aqmar as بسيمة
1977
- Caught in a Honey Trap as زيزي
1975
- On Cellophane Paper as قسمت - زوجة محمد
- I'll Never Come Back as هدى راتب
- Badia Masabni as Badia Masabni
- Mean yekdar al-aziza as مشاهدي عرض الأزياء
1974
- The City's Lost Souls as شهرت
- الأخوة الأعداء as Lula / The Dancer لولا الرقاصة
1973
- Army of the Sun as متطوعة في مستشفى المنيل الجامعي
1972
- Wild Flowers as أميرة
- City Lights
- Faceless Men as Laila
- The Visitor as Laila / Nadia
- The Barrier as Nadia نادية
1971
- Confessions of a Woman as نادية المحامية
- Oushaq El Hayah as Mona Ismail Al-Jabali
- The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy as Saniya
1970
- Kant Ayam as وفيه - زوجة جلال
- El Ragol El Monaseeb as منى
1969
- أنف وثلاث عيون as أمينة\ميتو
- My Father Is on the Tree as Firdous
- The Night of Counting the Years as Zeena
- Mama's Secretary as camilia
- Nashal raghm anfuh as Samia Fawzy
1968
- How to Rob a Millionaire
- Three Stories as الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
- Days Of Love as Qishta / Nadia Refaat
1967
- Naughty Girl as samira
- Endama Nouheb
- A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood as جينا
- غراميات مجنون
- The Long Nights
- The Quail and Autumn as Riri
1966
- Mansion of Longing as Zuba
- Enemy of Women as نادية عبدالفتاح المرصفي
- Life is Sweet as Mona
1965
- Mudaris khususi as Nadia, Mamdouh's sister
- Widow Wanted as Suad
- The Impossible as ناني
- Unfaithful as Ilham
1964
- For Men Only as Ilham/Mustafa إلهام (مصطفى)
- دعني والدموع
- Youth, love and fun as سميرة
- الباحثة عن الحب as ناهد
- Thawrat Al-Banat
- Fleeing from life as Salwa
1963
- Saladin as Louisa de Lusignan
- Cairo at Night
- A Marriage in Danger
- The Dark Glasses as Madi
- Years of love as Nadia
- A Bachelor’s Life as هدى
- Unforgettable Love as Amal
1962
- Alkhataya as سهير
- Schoolgirl's notes as نادية
- Men Gheir Ma'ad as نادية
- Ayam Bela Hob as Nadia Shaker
- Seraa El Gababera as Lillian
- قاضى الغرام as منى
1961
- عودي يا أمي as زينب
- The Sun Will Never Set as Shahira
- نصف عذراء
- Lost in Memories as Amal
- The Seven Daughters as أحلام
1960
- My Only Love as Mona
- عمالقة البحار
1959
1958
- Soultan as الصحفية خطيبة عصام