Soad Hosny

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Soad Hosny (January 26, 1943-1991-2001) was an Egyptian actress born in Cairo.

She was known as the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema" and one of Egypt's most influential actresses and the Arab world.

She rose to fame in the 1950s by appearing in more than 83 films between 1959 and 1991.

The bulk of her films were shot in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ali Badrakhan's last film role was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women.

Early life

Soad Muhammad Hosny was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Mohammad Hosni, a noted Islamic calligrapher, and his second wife, Egyptian Gawhara Mohamed Hassan.

Her father was of Kurdish descent, and she had emigrated to Egypt at the age of 19. Soad and her two siblings were left homeless after her parents separated and her mother remarried, to an Egyptian man, Abdul Monem Hafeez, with whom she had six more children.

Since leading artists from around the Arab world frequented Hosni's home in Cairo for tuition and social interaction with the master calligrapher, her father's household was regarded as "the artists' home." Her father, who was also responsible for the creation of frames for the silent films and book covers, was well-known in the academic world. A number of his children were trained to be entertainers. Nagat, Soad's half-sister, was an actor and singer. Ezz Eddin Hosni, her half-brother (1927-2013), was a music arranger who taught both Soad and Najat music as well as singing. Sami Hosni, the sibling of another sibling, has made a name for herself as a cello player, jewelry designer, and even calligrapher. Farooq, a painter, and his daughter Samira was also an actress, although his brother, Farooq, was an actor.

Personal life

Soad Hosny was married four times. Salah Kurayyem, a filmtographer from 1968, was married for about one year; she was married for about a year. Hosny married Egyptian film director Ali Badrakhan in 1970; his marriage lasted about 11 years. In 1981, she married Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab, the son of Fateen Abdel Wahab and Leila Mourad. This marriage lasted just five months. According to persistent rumors, she married to Abdel Hafez (1929-1977), who is also known as "the tan nightingale" [the tan nightingale] and that she is likely to have married in secrecy. However, her family has denied such rumors.

Abdel Hafez, an Egyptian film actress, was romantically linked to her. Despite never wearing a wedding dress in any of her marriages, Hosni wore the wedding dress many times on film in her films, and her first film husband, Salah Zulfikar, was the Egyptian film star in Money and Women of 1960. Abdel Halim Hafez's marriage story was not the first in her lifetime. When filming with Zulfikar in Appointment at the Tower in late 1962, a strong rumor of her marriage to Salah Zulfikar, one of Egypt's most iconic male actors of all time and was commonly referred to as "Fares al Ahlem" [the Knight of the dreams]. The film scenes were shot in Cairo, and the team stayed on board the ship Aida in the Mediterranean for two weeks, and after filming ended, the rumors of her marriage to Salah Zulfikar appeared in newspapers and magazines at the time. Zulfikar did not forget the fact of his previous work as a police officer and started with his suspicion of suspicion to determine that the lighting man in the film crew was the source of the rumors after a kiss lasted three minutes but Zulfikar decided it was too long and told the cinematographer, "Stop," but the two film stars later told the reporter that the actor did not stay in the film together. Maher Awad, a screen writer, was her fourth and final marriage.

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Career

At the age of three, she began her career when she sang in the popular Egyptian children's TV program, Papa Sharo, a popular program hosted by prominent kids' shows presenter Mohamed Shaaban. Her work included a wide range of genres – from light comedies and romances through to political satire.

Her film debut was in Hassan and Nayima (1959). She is credited with acting in films with the most notable Egyptian film stars such as Omar Sharif, Salah Zulfikar and Rushdy Abaza. Her most well-known role was that of a college student who fell in love with her professor in the film, Hassan El Imam’s Watch Out for ZouZou (1972). Other important film credits include her roles in Hassan Al-Imam's Money and Women (1960) opposite Salah Zulfikar who she starred alongside as well in the commercial hit; Appointment at the Tower (1962) of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. In the year 1964, she starred alongside Nadia Lutfi in Mahmoud Zulfikar's For Men Only, the film was a box office hit where she played a role of a girl disguised in a man's appearance to have the opportunity to work in a gas project. Hosny starred in Too Young for Love (1966) opposite Rushdy Abaza.

In 1970, she starred alongside Salah Zulfikar and Rushdy Abaza in the political film; Sunset and Sunrise (1970) of Kamal El Sheikh. She worked in two films with Youssef Chahine during her career starting with The Choice (1970), and for the fourth time pairing with Salah Zulfikar in Those People of the Nile (1972). In 1974, she starred in Kamal El Sheikh's Whom Should We Shoot? (1974) alongside Mahmoud Yassin. Her next role was a student and political activist, who was tortured in Karnak (1975), the film was based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz. In the film, Shafika and Metwali (1979) with Ahmed Zaki and People on the Top (1981) with Nour El-Sherif, she transformed the musical numbers into scathing satires which gave voice to the oppressed. For this and her other hard-hitting, politically relevant roles, she was seen as part of the intelligentsia.

During her lifetime, she was known as the "Cinderella of the screen". She starred in films of every important Egyptian director during the 60s and 70s and played women in complex plots. In her later career, she played women who had been abused or victimised. Due to illness, she retired from acting in the 1991. Hosny's final screen appearance was in The Shepherd and the Women.

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