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Born · December 21, 1951 (73 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: 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.
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2000
Sonia
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1998
5.0
1995
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1994
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1991
Amira Abdul Majeed
6.0
1990
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1990
عزيزة
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1990
Camellia
6.6
1988
Magda Abdel Sattar
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1987
Fawziya
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1987
7.0
1986
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1986
هدى عبد الهادي عمار
6.0
1985
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1985
Madiha
6.5
1984
شهرزاد · (15 episodes)
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1984
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1983
أمال
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1982
Layla
5.9
1981
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1981
ليلى
6.0
1980
Nadia
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1980
7.0
1980
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1979
Sarah Sorel
6.2
1979
8.0
1979
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1978
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1978
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1978
Mona
6.0
1978
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1977
Sonyah
1.0
1977
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1976
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1976
6.2
1976
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1976
Huda / Dalal
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1975
ليلى - المربية
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1975
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1975
Bedour
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1974
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1974
Hoda Jamal Kazem
6.0
1974
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1973
Aida
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1973
Nahed
7.0
1973
ياسمين إسماعيل فخر الدين
5.7
1973
Nadia
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1972
Nagwa
7.5
1972
Yasmine
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1972
Sohair
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1972
زيزي
6.0
1972
Huda
3.2
1972
Dalal
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1972
Fayza
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1971
Fayza
5.0
1971
Zahra
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1971
Maha Adel's fiancée
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1971
Nahed Shawkat
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1971
Amal
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1971
7.0
1971
Sawsan
5.0
1971
زهرة
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1970
Mona Hassan
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1970
Nadia
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1970
Samira
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1970
Karima
6.0
1970
Wafaa
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1970
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1970
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1970
Suniya
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1969
Self - Guest of Honor
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1969
Duha
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1969
Saadia
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1969
Laila al-Gharbaoui
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1969
بثينة بستانى
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1968
Hyam
5.0
1968
Jamila
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1968
Zahra
6.2
1966
ليلى · (1 episode)
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