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