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
- I'll Never Come Back as هدى راتب
- On Cellophane Paper as قسمت - زوجة محمد
- 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
- Wild Flowers as أميرة
- City Lights
- Faceless Men as Laila
- The Barrier as Nadia نادية
- The Visitor as Laila / Nadia
1971
- Confessions of a Woman as نادية المحامية
- The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy as Saniya
- Oushaq El Hayah as Mona Ismail Al-Jabali
1970
- El Ragol El Monaseeb as منى
- Kant Ayam as وفيه - زوجة جلال
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
- Days Of Love as Qishta / Nadia Refaat
- How to Rob a Millionaire
- Three Stories as الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
1967
- A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood as جينا
- Naughty Girl as samira
- غراميات مجنون
- Endama Nouheb
- The Long Nights
- The Quail and Autumn as Riri
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
- For Men Only as Ilham/Mustafa إلهام (مصطفى)
- الباحثة عن الحب as ناهد
- Thawrat Al-Banat
- Youth, love and fun as سميرة
- دعني والدموع
- Fleeing from life as Salwa
1963
- Saladin as Louisa de Lusignan
- A Marriage in Danger
- Cairo at Night
- The Dark Glasses as Madi
- A Bachelor’s Life as هدى
- Years of love as Nadia
- Unforgettable Love as Amal
1962
- Alkhataya as سهير
- Men Gheir Ma'ad as نادية
- Seraa El Gababera as Lillian
- قاضى الغرام as منى
- Schoolgirl's notes as نادية
- Ayam Bela Hob as Nadia Shaker
1961
- عودي يا أمي as زينب
- The Seven Daughters as أحلام
- The Sun Will Never Set as Shahira
- Lost in Memories as Amal
- نصف عذراء
1960
- My Only Love as Mona
- عمالقة البحار
1959
1958
- Soultan as الصحفية خطيبة عصام