Fatma Roshdy

Born: 1908-02-19

Fatma Roshdi is an Egyptian actress who was born in Alexandria in 1908. She began her acting career at a young age, when (director) Ameen Attallah cast her in one of his acting troupe’s plays. Afterwards, she acted with a number of theater troupes, working alongside Abdel Rahman Rushdi, Sayyed Darwish, Aziz Eid, and Youseff Wehbe. Starting in the mid-1920s, Fatima starred in a significant number of plays, including: “El Sahraa’” (The Desert), “El Qan’aa El Azraq” (The Blue Mask), “El Nasr El Sagheer” (L’Aiglon), and “El Horreya” (Freedom). After separating from Aziz Eid, Fatima created her own private theater troupe, which became one of the most illustrious theater troupes. At the end of the 1920s, Fatima began her cinematic career. Her first film was “Fag’aa Foq El Haram” (Tragedy on the Pyramids) in 1928. She starred in a number of films until the 1950s, including “Thamin El Saa’da” (The Price of Happiness), “El A’mil” (The Worker), “El Tareeq El Mostaqeem” (The Virtuous Path), “Medina El Ghajer,” “El ‘Azeema” (Determination), “El Jassid” (The Body). She stopped acting at the end of the 1960s, and died in 1996 at the age of 87.


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The Will

as فاطمة
Released: 1939-11-06

The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his...

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The Straight Road

as ثريّا
Released: 1943-10-17

A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts...

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Gharam El Sheyukh

as uncredited
Released: 1946-04-13

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Flesh

as uncredited
Released: 1955-12-17

A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of...

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Like A Matchstick

as uncredited
Released: 2016-08-24

A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the...

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Forever

as Sania
Released: 1941-03-03

The wealthy Mohsen meets his arch rival, Asim, and a verbal argument arises between them, after...

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The Worker

as Haniya
Released: 1943-02-04

Al-Asti Ahmed works as a worker in one of the major factories. He is a staunch defender of...

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Under The Sky of Egypt

as Salma
Released: 1928-01-01

Egyptian student Ahmed studies in Paris, where he meets the Russian dancer, Nicole, marries her,...

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Tragedy over the Pyramid

as Mounira
Released: 1928-12-05

On the beaches of Alexandria, Sa'ied meets Mounira when he saves her brother from drowning, and...

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