2022/04/23
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A movie star, distinguished by her charming beauty and wit, which made her the subject of interest and admiration by critics, producers and directors. She achieved great success in all her cinematic and dramatic works. She is the Egyptian artist, Naglaa Fathi, whose real name is Fatima al-Zahra, and she was born on December 21, 1951, in the city of Fayoum, which coincided with the anniversary of the Prophet’s birthday, which made her parents call her Fatima al-Zahra.
And artist Naglaa Fathi, her compatriot producer Adly Al-Mawd, discovered her while she was on one of the beaches of Alexandria and assigned her a role in the movie “The Three Friends” in 1966, and when Abdel Halim Hafez learned about this film, he insisted on her adoption, support and support, despite her family’s refusal to work in the field of art. Nightingale’s mediation was linking Nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez, a family relationship with Naglaa Fathi’s brothers, and thus he was able to convince them to enter the field of acting, and insisted on changing her name from Fatima Al-Zahra to “Najla Fathi” to become the heroine of her first artwork in the movie “Afrah” directed by Ahmed Badrakhan in 1968.
Najla Fathi later stood in front of the brown nightingale in a radio series entitled “Please don’t understand me quickly” for several episodes, but the October War of 1973, prevented the completion of the work. Her marriage to a Saudi prince The controversy surrounded that marriage that largely withheld “Najlaa” from art, as she was married in the early eighties to a Saudi prince for three and a half years, but she rarely spoke about her, except that her Saudi husband stipulated that she only participate in one movie per year. And she was living with him in Paris and then returning to present her artwork in Egypt, but she could not bear to live in that way, which forced her to separate from him and return permanently to Egypt to continue her work, and no children were produced from that marriage.
The artist almost accepted suicide when her only daughter Yasmine fell ill, thinking that she would die, but her mother saved her, when she noticed the matter, saying to her: “What do you want? I replied to her: I want my daughter. She said to her: I also want my daughter!”