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
- Mean yekdar al-aziza as مشاهدي عرض الأزياء
- Badia Masabni as Badia Masabni
- On Cellophane Paper as قسمت - زوجة محمد
- I'll Never Come Back as هدى راتب
1974
- الأخوة الأعداء as Lula / The Dancer لولا الرقاصة
- The City's Lost Souls as شهرت
1973
1972
- City Lights
- Faceless Men as Laila
- The Barrier as Nadia نادية
- The Visitor as Laila / Nadia
1971
- Oushaq El Hayah as Mona Ismail Al-Jabali
- The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy as Saniya
1970
- El Ragol El Monaseeb as منى
- Kant Ayam as وفيه - زوجة جلال
1969
- The Night of Counting the Years as Zeina
- Nashal raghm anfuh as Samia Fawzy
- Mama's Secretary as camilia
- 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 Long Nights
- Naughty Girl as samira
- غراميات مجنون
- The Quail and Autumn as Riri
- A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood as جينا
- Endama Nouheb
1966
- Mansion of Longing as Zuba
- Enemy of Women as نادية عبدالفتاح المرصفي
- Life is Sweet as Mona
- The Impossible as ناني
1965
- Unfaithful as Ilham
- Widow Wanted as Suad
- Mudaris khususi as Nadia, Mamdouh's sister
1964
- Youth, love and fun as سميرة
- الباحثة عن الحب as ناهد
- دعني والدموع
- For Men Only as Ilham/Mustafa إلهام (مصطفى)
- Thawrat Al-Banat
- Fleeing from life as Salwa
1963
- Saladin the Victorious as Louisa de Lusignan
- The Black Sunglasses as Madi
- Years of love as Nadia
- Unforgettable Love as Amal
- A Bachelor’s Life as هدى
- A Marriage in Danger
- Cairo at Night
1962
- Alkhataya as سهير
- Seraa El Gababera as Lillian
- Schoolgirl's notes as نادية
- Ayam Bela Hob as Nadia Shaker
- Men Gheir Ma'ad as نادية
- قاضى الغرام as منى
1961
- The Sun Will Never Set as Shahira
- Lost in Memories as Amal
- نصف عذراء
- The Seven Daughters as أحلام
1960
- My Only Love as Mona
- عمالقة البحار
1959
1958
- Soultan as الصحفية خطيبة عصام