Nadia Lotfi
Known For
Acting
Born
1937-01-03 in Cairo, Egypt
Died
2020-02-04
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.
Most Known For
Saladin
as Louisa de Lusignan
ناس ولاد ناس
as قدرية
The Night of Counting the Years
as Zeina
Where Do You Hide the Sun?
as صوفيا
Waraa Al-Shams
as Sohair سهير
My Father Is on the Tree
as Firdous
Caught in a Honey Trap
as زيزي
Men Gheir Ma'ad
as نادية
Three Stories
as الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
Legitimate Father
as شريفة
The Impossible
as ناني
The Seven Daughters
as أحلام
A house without love
Seraa El Gababera
as Lillian
رحلة داخل امرأة
as آمال
Schoolgirl's notes
as نادية
الأخوة الأعداء
as Lula / The Dancer لولا الرقاصة
Mean yekdar al-aziza
as مشاهدي عرض الأزياء
My Only Love
as Mona
House of the Poisoned Family
as سناء الرفاعي