Naglaa Fathy

Known for ActingBorn 1951-12-21 (age 74)Cairo, Egypt

Fatma El-Zahraa Hussein Fathi was born on 21 December 1951. is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in 1967 and has played a role in over 80 films. She established a production company and produced films, including Supermarket (1990). The award-winning actress also wrote the screenplay for Tomorrow I Will Exact My Revenge(1980). Fathi started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at the age of 15 when she was approached by producer Adly El-Mowalid, while she was at the beach in Alexandria with her friends. She dropped out of school in 1967 to get involved in acting. Her career began in earnest and she starred in the 1968 Egyptian film Afrah, produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw her as a potential romance icon. Throughout the 1970s, she acted in roughly 15 films a year, predominantly romantic dramas. In the Egyptian film industry, she was only second to actress Faten Hamama in the number of romance films acted in, though not as popular since she was mostly given secondary roles to male characters. During the 1980s, Fathi largely departed from this role and began acting in more complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political dimensions. She received an award for best actress for her starring role in El Garage (1995), where she played a deserted and impoverished single mother who lives inside a garage with her five children, all of whom she gradually gives up to other families as her health deteriorates. The film was based on a true story and Fathi described it as the "most difficult and painful" role she has had to play. According to writer Nagla El-Baz, the movie was a success in raising awareness about the issue of overpopulation.Read more

Movies & web series

Qamar Al-Zaman

End of the Road

Concerto in Darb Saada

Aqwa Min Al-Ayam

Madness of Love

Rawaat El Hob

The Iron Lady

Graveyards for Rent

Hob La Yara Al-Shams

Al-Aqwiyaa

First Year of Love

My Blood, My Tears and My Smile

Shadows on the Other Side

Joys

A Nose And Three Eyes

The Unknown

Alexandria… Why?

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

Supermarket

No My Ex-Lover

The Law, Excuse Us

Saad the Orphan

Al Sharida

Remember Me

The Three Friends

The Most Beautiful Days of My Life

Love & Pride

Farewell to Torment

The Mirror

Abou Rabiea

Marriage for Half an Hour

Body and Passion

The Garage

Then the sun rises

My Sister

My Husband’s Woman

Sonya and the Madman

Battal min Al-Janub

اللحظات الأخيرة

Disco Disco

Ihzaru Hazehi Al-Maraa

Eshtibah

اللص

Below Zero

Lack of Evidence

الدنيا على جناح يمامة

Eimra mutlaqa

ألف ليلة وليلة