Naglaa Fathi

Naglaa Fathi , whose birth name is Fatmah Elzahra' Hesin Fathi (, born 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 film : Supermarket in which she was actress also. The award-winning actress also wrote the screenplay for Tomorrow I Will Take Revenge , (1980). 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.

Personal life Fathi was born in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian family consisting of a father from Fayyum and a mother from Heliopolis, Cairo. Her first marriage was a secret marriage as a teenage, for a short period. Her family did not know about this secret marriage. She had no children from this secret marriage, which ended in divorce. She married again. She had her only child, a daughter named Yasmin , with her second husband. This marriage ended in divorce in 1977. In 1992 she married well-known Egyptian journalist and television presenter Hamdi Qandil. While she stated that her first marriage, in 1969, was a secret kept from her family, she described her second marriage in 1971 as a balancing act for her life amid her new fame and fortune and an attempt to raise a large family. She said in a 2000 interview that Qandil, her current husband, "is the first man who has fascinated me. It is not easy to bewitch me, but he did. I feel like a student when I'm with him: I discover new qualities in him every day."

Fathi is a Nasserist and Arab nationalist; she supports the Palestinian cause and all pan-Arabism causes. When the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser declared his resignation after the Egyptian defeat in the 1967 War, she joined demonstrations protesting his departure, which he retracted days later. She has worn the traditional Palestinian rural dress during some interviews and public events as an expression of solidarity and said she was deeply distraught by the events in the Palestinian Territories, particularly stating, "My happiness has been shattered by the events. I don't know how to be happy, really. Something inside me has grown dark."

Selected filmography Film نجوى 1973 My Blood, My Tears And My Smileدمى و دموعى و ابتسامتى Nahed ناهد 1974 Bedur بدور 1974 The Most Beautiful Days of My Life أجمل أيام عمري 1975 The White Dress الرداء الابيض 1976 No Time for Tears لا وقت للدموع 1976 Moon of Time قمر الزمان 1977 Sonya And The Madman سونيا و المجنون Sonya سونيا 1977 Love Madness جنون الحب Mona منى 1979 Alexandria... Why? اسكندريه ليه؟ Sarah ساره 1980 Love Does Not See the Sun حب لا يرى الشمس 1980 Homeless الشريده 1984 The Unknown المجهول Nadia ناديه 1985 Excuse Me Law عفوا ايها القانون Hoda هدى 1986 Graveyards for Rent مدافن مفروشه للايجار Nabila نبيله 1988 Divorced Woman امرأة مطلقة Salwa سلوى 1989 The Dreams of Hind and Camelia احلام هند و كاميليا Camelia كاميليا 1990 Supermarket سوبرماركت Amira اميره Producer 1990 Below Zero تحت الصفر Raga رجاء 1991 Suspicion اشتباه Nadia ناديه 1995 The Garage الجراج Naimah نعيمه 1998 Concert in the Street of Happiness كونشرتو فى درب سعاده Sonia سونيا