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Antoinette Naguib; A Syrian Christian actress, famous for her acting in several theatrical, television and film works, and she has left more than 150 works of art in all of these categories. In the last years of her life she suffered from illness, and died on August 17, 2022.
Birth and upbringing
Antoinette Najib was born in February 1930 in the Syrian city of Daraa, and she came from a Christian family.
She married the artist Youssef Choueiri in 1962, who died in 2005, and she has a son, a daughter, and her grandson from her daughter is the artist Fadi Al-Shami.
artistic experience
She started as an actress for the first time in “Naked Without Sin” in 1967, and joined the Syrian Artists Syndicate in 1968.
She has contributed to many Syrian radio works, and is best known for her role in the 1975 series “Sah Al-Nom”, which was her first dramatic work on screen.
In 1976, she participated in the movie “Forbidden Love”, and was absent from the screens for 6 years, and returned in 1982 and participated in the series “Al-Saad Waad”.
Between 1995 and 1996, she presented many dramatic works, and embodied various characters, most notably the series “Shima”, “The Difficult Steps”, and “We Were Friends”.
In addition to her various roles, she was known for the role of “The Mother” for presenting several works in which she excelled in embodying this role. She was known in the memory of Syrians as “Naima”, who embodied her role in the series “The Four Seasons”, the first part of which was produced in 1999 and the second in 2002.
Achievements
In her career, she presented more than 150 works that varied between theater, cinema and television.
Her position on the Syrian revolution
Antoinette was known for her support for the Syrian regime and her opposition to the Syrian revolution in the television interviews she gave.
In an interview with the Lebanese Al-Jadeed channel on the “Bla cipher” program, she said about the Syrians leaving their country to escape the bombing as “a shameful thing”, and that she refuses to greet any Syrian refugee she meets while she is in Lebanon and asks him to move away.
She called on the artists opposed to the regime and those who left the country to return to “the bosom of the homeland.”
Death
She died on August 17, 2022, at the age of 92, and was mourned by the Syrian capital, “Damascus” branch of the Syrian Artists Syndicate.
Antoinette was suffering from health problems before her death, as she underwent a weekly dialysis session for a long time until her death, and she was exposed to frequent health problems, the last of which was in February 2019 that caused her to enter intensive care.