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