Wadad Hamdi

Wedad Hamdi was an Egyptian actress. She starred in over 600 films during her lifetime, and almost all her roles were as a servant or maid.

Early life Wedad Mehammad Elsawi Zaraarah was born on 7 March 1924 in Kafr El-Sheikh. She studied at the Acting Institute and graduated after two years. Hamdi started her career as a singer.

She worked with the Egyptian National Troupe on several plays. Hamdi retired in the sixties but was called out of retirement to work on the play Tamr Henna.

Selected filmography Film This Was My Father's Crime (1945) Bread and Salt (1949) The Love Office (1950) A Million Pounds (1954) Miss Hanafi (1954) Fatawat el Husseinia (1955) The Female Boss (1959) Forbidden Women (1959) Hassan and Nayima (1959) Love and Adoration (1960) A Storm of Love (1961) Wife Number 13 (1962) Soft Hands (1963) In Summer We Must Love (1974) Whom Should We Shoot? (1975) Mouths and Rabbits (1977) Min Fadlik Wa Ihsanik (1986) My Dear, We’re All Thieves (1989)

Television The Return of the Spirit (1977)

Plays Azeeza and Younis (Azeeza W Younis) 20 Hens and a Rooster (20 farkha we deek) A Game Called Love (L’eba esmaha al-hobb) Mother of Rateeba (Om-Rateeba)