Hind Rostom
1929-11-11 ( 95 years old ) in Alexandria, Egypt

Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.

Movies

Like A Matchstick 2016-08-24
My Life is Hell 1979-04-19
The Meek 1975-11-01
Coward in Love 1975-06-16
Me, My daughter and Love 1974-04-18
Word of Honour 1973-03-27
The Den of the Wicked 1972-10-16
Desire and Loss 1972-07-01
The Greatest Kid in the World 1972-05-01
My Beautiful Teacher 1971-11-15
Sweet Aziza 1969-09-01
El Khouroug Min El Guana 1967-03-20
The second groom 1967-02-06
Sayed Darwish 1966-10-05
Huwa wa el nessaa 1966-08-31
The Single Husband 1966-08-10
Tofahet Adam 1966-04-27
A man and two women 1966-04-26
Shayateen El Leyl 1966-03-30
Three Thieves 1966-01-01
The Nun 1965-04-28
the eternal love 1965-01-30
A Husband’s Confession 1964-10-12
Woman on the Margin 1963-10-13
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya 1963-04-14
Sett El Banat 1961-10-29
Fatouma 1961-08-24
Blood on the Nile 1961-07-24
Big Teenager 1961-04-17
طريق الأبطال 1961-03-13
Eshaet Hob 1960-11-21
رجل بلا قلب 1960-10-17
Boundless Love 1960-02-15
Men in the Storm 1960-02-08
Between Heaven and Earth 1959-11-09
Struggle on the Nile 1959-10-18
الحب الأخير 1959-09-29
The Surprises Motel 1959-03-16
Kiss Me in the Dark 1959-01-01
Bufakkar filli nassini 1959-01-01
The Big Brother 1958-11-24
The Silent Love 1958-10-13
Awattif 1958-08-20
Cairo Station 1958-07-31
Tuha 1958-04-17
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital 1958-03-17
The Charmer 1958-01-01
Return My Heart 1957-12-10
Sleepless 1957-10-31
Struggle with life 1957-10-14
Lovers of the Night 1957-10-03
You Are My Love 1957-09-17
Ibn Hamidu 1957-08-07
The Great Love 1957-04-29
Nisaa Fi Hayaty 1957-01-31
Al-Jasad 1955-07-25
Banat Al-Lail 1955-03-21
Love Crime 1955-01-01
Victory of Love 1954-12-27
It happened one night 1954-10-18
دلوني يا ناس 1954-10-14
Women Can’t Lie 1954-10-11
El naas makamat 1954-07-05
Love letter 1954-03-22
Banat Hawaa 1954-03-01
Love In The Darkness 1953-06-08
Al-Liqaa' Al Akhir 1953-06-01
طريق السعادة 1953-04-16
The Victory of Islam 1952-01-02
El Dam Yehen 1952-01-01
Baba Amin 1950-11-20
Owner of Few Piasters 1949-09-26
The Flirtation of Girls 1949-09-22
Soul and body 1948-10-04

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