
Naglaa Fathy
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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84

ألف ليلة وليلة
1984

أرجوك لا تفهمني بسرعة
1973

Marriage for Half an Hour
1969

Alexandria… Why?
1979

The Three Madmen
1970

My Husband’s Woman
1970

Lack of Evidence
1987

The Devil is a Woman
1972

Body and Passion
1972

Sonya and the Madman
1977

Love & Pride
1972

Al Sharida
1980

My blood, My Tears and My Smile
1973

The Three Friends
1966

Disco Disco
1994

Bedour
1974

No My Ex-Lover
1976

The Mirror
1970

Dreams of Hind and Camilia
1988

Saad the Orphan
1985

Girls' Secrets
1969

Boy, Girl And the Devil
1971

The Iron Lady
1987

Seraa All Mohtafeeen
1969

Abou Rabiea
1973

A Nose And Three Eyes
1972

My Sister
1971

Then the sun rises
1971

Below Zero
1990

Graveyards for Rent
1986

The Lottery Ticket Thief
1970

Sabreen
1975

A Schoolgirl's Romance
1969

The White Dress
1975

Farewell to Torment
1981

Eimra mutlaqa
1986

Hob Fauq Al-Burkan
1978

Al-Aqwiyaa
1980

The Most Beautiful Days of My Life
1974

Love... Sweeter Than Love
1975

From home to school
1972

Qamar Al-Zaman
1976

The Unknown
1984

Ebn Al-Shaitan
1969

Concerto in Darb Saada
1998

اللحظات الأخيرة
2000

Ghdaan saantaqim
1983

Sweet Trip
1971

5 شارع الحبايب
1971

Wa Tamdi Al-Ahzan
1979

Supermarket
1990

El Banat Lazem Ttgawz
1973

Hob La Yara Al-Shams
1980

Rawaat El Hob
1968

Youth on Fire
1972

Joys
1968

Me In His Eyes
1981

The Garage
1995

End of the devils
1970

Shadows on the Other Side
1971

La waqt lil-demoue
1976

Date with the Beloved
1971
Girls Must Get Married
1973

Al-Wafaa Al-Azeem
1974

End of the Road
1968

The Two Friends
1970

Aietida'
1982

Soul lover
1973

The Judge and the Executioner
1978

Journey to oblivion
1978

The Law, Excuse Us
1985

Remember Me
1978

Eshtibah
1991

Aqwa Min Al-Ayam
1979

First Year of Love
1976

اللص
1990

أوهام الحب
1970

Hayati
1970

حسناء المطار
1971

Madness of Love
1977

الدنيا على جناح يمامة
1987

Eashiqat nafsiha
1972

Ihzaru Hazehi Al-Maraa
1991

Battal min Al-Janub
2000