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Born · November 11, 1929
Died · November 8, 2011 (81 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
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1979
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1975
Soad Hanim
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1975
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1974
Nahed
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1973
Nahed
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1973
Fayza
5.0
1972
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1972
Nadia
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1971
عزيزة
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1969
Anan
8.5
1967
Wafaa Hanem
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1967
جليلة
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1966
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1966
Azhar
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1966
Gamila
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1966
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1966
Rawheya
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1966
Amina, the butcher's wife
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1966
Hoda/Sonia
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1965
امينة
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1965
Buthaina
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1964
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1963
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
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1963
mounria
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1961
Fatima
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1961
Ghalia
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1961
Sonia
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1961
نور عبدالله
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1961
Hind Rostom
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1960
عايدة
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1960
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1960
Aziza
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1960
ناهد شكري
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1959
نرجس(الراقصة)
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1959
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1959
نبلة الراقصة
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1959
لولا
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1959
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1959
Rawhaya
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1958
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1958
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1958
Hanuma
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1958
توحة
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1958
Teama
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1958
Aziza
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1958
الراقصة كريمة
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1957
Kawthar
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1957
Samira
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1957
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1957
نانا (الراقصة)
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1957
عزيزة
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1957
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1957
Fathiya
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1957
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1955
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1954
سنية
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1954
Nabwiya
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1954
Daughter of Riad Pasha
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1954
Latifa
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1954
One of the secretaries
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1954
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هند
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1952
Sonia
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1950
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1949
كومبارس صامت
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1949
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