1951-12-21 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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Battal min Al-Janub | 2000-04-01 | |
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كونشرتو في درب سعادة | Sonia | 1998-06-14 |
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الجراج | 1995-11-12 | |
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ديسكو ديسكو | 1994-08-15 | |
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احذروا هذه المرأة | 1991-11-25 | |
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اشتباه | 1991-08-12 | |
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اللص | عزيزة | 1990-04-26 |
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سوبر ماركت | Amira Abdul Majeed | 1990-10-08 |
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تحت الصفر | 1990-07-02 | |
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أحلام هند وكاميليا | Camellia | 1988-04-07 |
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لعدم كفاية الأدلة | Fawziya | 1987-03-25 |
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المرأة الحديدية | Magda Abdel Sattar | 1987-08-03 |
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امراة مطلقة | 1986-06-07 | |
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مدافن مفروشة للإيجار | 1986-11-17 | |
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سعد اليتيم | 1985-01-01 | |
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عفوا ايها القانون | هدى عبد الهادي عمار | 1985-09-09 |
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المجهول | Madiha | 1984-06-23 |
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غدا سأنتقم | 1983-10-17 | |
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اعتداء | أمال | 1982-07-21 |
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أنا في عينيه | 1981-01-01 | |
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وداعا للعذاب | Layla | 1981-08-01 |
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الشريدة | ليلى | 1980-11-10 |
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حب لا يرى الشمس | 1980-07-21 | |
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الأقوياء | Nadia | 1980-08-16 |
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أقوى من الأيام | 1979-02-26 | |
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وتمضي الأحزان | 1979-10-17 | |
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إسكندرية ليه؟ | Sarah Sorel | 1979-08-23 |
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رحلة النسيان | 1978-12-25 | |
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القاضي والجلاد | 1978-03-27 | |
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أذكريني | Mona | 1978-03-20 |
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حب فوق البركان | 1978-11-09 | |
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سونيا والمجنون | Sonyah | 1977-01-04 |
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جنون الحب | 1977-06-13 | |
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سنه اولى حب | 1976-10-18 | |
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قمر الزمان | 1976-01-01 | |
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لا وقت للدموع | 1976-09-24 | |
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لا يا من كنت حبيبي | 1976-06-21 | |
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الرداء الأبيض | Huda / Dalal | 1975-12-29 |
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حب أحلى من الحب | ليلى - المربية | 1975-11-03 |
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صابرين | 1975-06-09 | |
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الوفاء العظيم | 1974-10-07 | |
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بدور | Bedour | 1974-10-14 |
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أجمل أيام حياتي | Hoda Jamal Kazem | 1974-04-08 |
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دمي ودموعي وابتسامتي | Nahed | 1973-06-25 |
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أبو ربيع | ياسمين إسماعيل فخر الدين | 1973-03-26 |
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البنات لازم تتجوز | 1973-12-31 | |
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عاشق الروح | Aida | 1973-11-05 |
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شباب يحترق | Nadia | 1972-11-06 |
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من البيت للمدرسة | Sohair | 1972-09-04 |
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حب وكبرياء | زيزي | 1972-07-03 |
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عاشقة نفسها | Dalal | 1972-01-24 |
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أنف وثلاث عيون | Nagwa | 1972-11-04 |
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العاطفة والجسد | Huda | 1972-03-27 |
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الشيطان امرأة | Yasmine | 1972-09-18 |
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الظلال في الجانب الآخر | 1971-01-02 | |
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ولد وبنت والشيطان | Fayza | 1971-12-27 |
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حسناء المطار | Amal | 1971-03-15 |
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موعد مع الحبيب | Nahed Shawkat | 1971-03-29 |
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أختي | Sawsan | 1971-01-01 |
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ثم تشرق الشمس | Fayza | 1971-09-27 |
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5 شارع الحبايب | Maha Adel's fiancée | 1971-04-12 |
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رحلة لذيذة | Zahra | 1971-07-12 |
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أوهام الحب | Nadia | 1970-07-12 |
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امرأة زوجي | Wafaa | 1970-04-27 |
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حياتي | Mona Hassan | 1970-07-27 |
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حرامي الورقة | 1970-04-01 | |
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الصديقان | 1970-03-21 | |
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المرايه | Karima | 1970-05-11 |
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المجانين الثلاثة | Samira | 1970-05-25 |
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نهاية الشياطين | زهرة | 1970-08-24 |
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نص ساعة جواز | Self - Guest of Honor | 1969-09-01 |
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صراع المحترفين | Laila al-Gharbaoui | 1969-03-03 |
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أسرار البنات | Suniya | 1969-10-20 |
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غرام تلميذة | Duha | 1969-06-04 |
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ابن الشيطان | Saadia | 1969-03-31 |
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روعة الحب | Hyam | 1968-07-01 |
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أفراح | بثينة بستانى | 1968-09-18 |
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آخر الطريق | Jamila | 1968-01-01 |
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الأصدقاء الثلاثة | Zahra | 1966-06-16 |
