Soad Hosny
Soad Hosny (January 26, 1943 - June 21, 2001) was an Egyptian actress born in Cairo to a household known as "the artists' home". Her father was renowned calligrapher Mohamed Hosni. Her half-sister Nagat El Saghira was a famous singer. Soad’s career began at a young age and her talents were first noticed by author Abdelrahman El Khamissy. She's one of the most influential actresses in the Arab world and is known as the "Cinderella of the Screen". Hosny appeared in no less than 9 movies listed in the "Top 100 Egyptian films", compiled in 1996 in celebration of the centenary of Egyptian cinema.
Soad was known for her versatility as an actress and her ability to play a wide range of characters, from comedic and lighthearted roles to dramatic and tragic ones. She was also known for her singing, which was featured in many of her films. Due to illness, she retired from acting in 1991 at just 48. Hosny's final screen appearance was in The Shepherd and the Women (1991), directed by her ex-husband, Ali Badrakhan. She starred alongside Ahmed Zaki in the TV series "Hekayat Howa wa Heya" (1985), a show that tackled social issues such as gender inequality. She received numerous awards in her career for starring in movies such as Sunset and Sunrise (1970), Where Is My Mind (1974), A Dinner Date (1981), and many other films.
Some consider her to be the only actress who rivaled Faten Hamama as the best Egyptian actress of the 20th century. She can be seen in her best form in Cairo 30 (1966), Too Young for Love (1966), Al Karnak (1975), Watch Out for Zouzou (1972), and Youssef Chahine's The Choice (1971). In 2001, Soad Hosny died after falling from the balcony of her friend's apartment in London; the real cause of her death is still unknown. She remains engraved in the Egyptian film industry and the hearts of many until today.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.066 |
Birthday | 1943-01-26 |
Place of Birth | Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt |
Also Known As | سعاد حسني, Soad Hosni, Суад Хусни, Souad Hosny, سعاد حسني البابا, Souad Hosni, Suad Husni, سعاد محمد محمود حسني أمين البابا, السندريلا, زوزو, أخت القمر, |
1970
Sunset and Sunrise
7.2/5
In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge...
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Sunset and Sunrise
1981
A Dinner Date
7.7/7
This movie revolves around the story of an innocent girl (Nawal) who was married to a rich and possessive man who still wants her back after their div...
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A Dinner Date
1975
Whom Should We Shoot?
6.5/4
The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.
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Whom Should We Shoot?
1967
The Second Wife
6.9/10
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
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The Second Wife
1986
Bird Of The Orient
0/0
The young prosecutor (Nour El-Sherif) experiences what happened to writer Tawfiq al-Hakim in the novel "The Bird of the East" travels to Paris. Finds...
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Bird Of The Orient
1966
Cairo 30
7.5/14
Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a...
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Cairo 30
1978
Shafiqa and Metwally
6.7/3
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, wher...
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Shafiqa and Metwally
1971
The Choice
7.4/11
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison bet...
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The Choice
1960
The Girls in Summer
8/2
Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband’s friend. The...
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The Girls in Summer
1986
The Hunger
7/2
In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his pe...
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The Hunger
1960
Eshaet Hob
7.694/18
Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Huss...
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Eshaet Hob
1981
Al-Qadisiyya
0/0
A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering P...
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Al-Qadisiyya
1972
People and the Nile
3.7/6
The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.
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People and the Nile
1959
Hassan and Nayima
6.5/4
Hajj Metwally is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naima falls in love with Hassan Al-Maghnawati and he reciprocates her feelings. The two...
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Hassan and Nayima
1964
The Road
7/1
The carefree existence of a spoiled man comes to an end when his mother is arrested. With no education or tangible skills, the man’s only salvation li...
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The Road
1981
The Suspect
6.536/14
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to ret...
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The Suspect
1975
Karnak
7/8
In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as p...
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Karnak
1981
People Of The Top
4.5/4
Zaatar is a thief who works for Zaghloul the owner of an import and export company. Zaghloul exploits Zaatar and makes him smuggle goods from customs....
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People Of The Top
1968
The Tale of Three Girls
0/0
Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. T...
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The Tale of Three Girls
1991
The Shepherd and the Women
5.8/5
The widowed Wafaa lives with her teenage daughter Salma and her sister-in-law Azza in her late husband Kamel's remote house. When Kamel's former cellm...
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The Shepherd and the Women
1964
For Men Only
6.5/8
(Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil well...
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For Men Only
1971
My Wife & the Dog
7.4/8
Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his ad...
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My Wife & the Dog
1972
Watch Out for Zuzu
6.5/12
When a college professor falls for one of his students, his fiancée decides to expose the student's shameful secret to all.
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Watch Out for Zuzu
1969
The Well of Deprivation
6.5/2
When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psyc...
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The Well of Deprivation
1966
Too Young for Love
7.5/8
Samiha catches the acting bug while engaged to the neglectful and food-obsessed Salah who spends most of his time cooking. When a handsome film and te...
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Too Young for Love
1982
Stranger In My House
6.4/8
A single mother and a football player from the countryside find themselves fighting over the same apartment after its deceitful owner gave them duplic...
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Stranger In My House
1963
The groom arrives tomorrow
0/0
Anayat Hanim succeeded in having a clothing factory after the death of her husband, allowing her to live with her three daughters Samira, a bachelor o...
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The groom arrives tomorrow
1973
Strangers
0/0
Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor F...
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Strangers
1968
Marriage on the Modern Way
6/2
Noha and Ahmed are in love but face a series of complications before getting married due to their traditional parents
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Marriage on the Modern Way
1966
His Excellency, The Ambassador
6/1
After the ambassador travels abroad, the servant takes advantage of this opportunity and impersonates him.
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His Excellency, The Ambassador
1988
The Third Class
4/1
A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits e...
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The Third Class
1969
A Bit of Torment
8/1
When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but...
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A Bit of Torment
1961
El safira Aziza
7.3/3
Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife a...
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El safira Aziza
1969
Nadia
6/1
The twins (Nadia and Mona) live in peace in Cairo with their father, a university professor, and their French mother. While Nadia is shy, Mona is bold...
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Nadia
1968
ُُThe Student And The Teacher
0/0
Waheed a music teacher in an institution, his student Salwa who entered the institution because of a crime she committed falls for him.
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ُُThe Student And The Teacher
1967
Shakket Al-Talaba
7/1
Two college students live together in Cairo. As they fall for their neighbor Mona, they start to compete to win her favor which stirs up trouble.
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Shakket Al-Talaba
1979
El Motawahesha
6/1
Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a fact...
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El Motawahesha
1983
Love in a Jail Cell
6.2/6
A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt business...
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Love in a Jail Cell
1970
Al-Hob Al-Daayie
7/2
Laila and Samia are two best friends ,but things are about to change when Laila moves in with Samia and her husband after the tragic death of Laila's...
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Al-Hob Al-Daayie
1966
مبكى العشاق
0/0
A young engineer whose wife dies in a car accident, and leaves his young daughter, and because he is an petroleum engineer, he has to be absent from t...
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مبكى العشاق
1966
Chakawet rejala
0/0
A rich young man named Ahmed falls in love with a poor girl called Farida, but he does not know that she is poor. To make a plan to present it to his...
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Chakawet rejala
1975
Amira.. My Love
6.5/4
Adel is a director of a company and is married to Nabila, the daughter of Medhat, the owner of the company. Adel falls in love with the company employ...
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Amira.. My Love
1967
Shabab Magnoun Geddan
6.5/2
Madiha, a student at the acting institute, is forced to disguise herself as a young man named Ismat to work in the music band formed by her three brot...
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Shabab Magnoun Geddan
1969
Fatatt El Estearaad
6/1
A group of stage actors who hate Ahmed Aluwi, the rich young man, starts attacking him in the magazines; when Ahemd knows about that, he decides to ch...
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Fatatt El Estearaad
1964
The Game of Love and Marriage
0/0
Ameria is shocked when she finds out her husband is cheating on her, so she decides to commit suicide, but the taxi driver saves her and takes her wit...
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The Game of Love and Marriage
1961
The Seven Daughters
7/2
The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and S...
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The Seven Daughters
1972
The Fear
8/2
Souad departs from Suez, heading to Cairo, after losing her family in the 1967 war. There she meets the journalist Ahmed, and the tragedy of ruin and...
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The Fear
1963
The Laughing Crime
6.5/2
A comedy about a television director who gets provoked by his uncle to avenge his dead father, but he prefers to let things go and get married to Layl...
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The Laughing Crime
1973
Past Love
0/0
A wife is forced to marry a man she does not love, even though there is a love relationship between her and another young man. After several years, th...
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Past Love
1974
Where Is My Mind ?
6.7/3
Dr. Tawfiq remains captive to the traditions of honor and innocence, despite his liberation and printing some of the traditions of European civilizati...
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Where Is My Mind ?
1968
El-sit el-nazra
0/0
Hoda is a student in a boarding school, she feels sad because her father neglected her at the behest of his wife, and when she spends the leave with h...
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El-sit el-nazra
1968
Sweet and Naughty
0/0
A film producer who agrees with one of the directors to direct a movie, assigning the movie starring to Noussa, then filming is delayed and disputes a...
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Sweet and Naughty
1968
Fire of Love
0/0
Said (Hasssan Youssef) was a famous and successful horse races jokey and a loving and faithful husband to his wife Dalal (Soad Hosny); He discovered t...
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Fire of Love
1964
Al-Ozab Al-Thalatha
0/0
Sherif, the lawyer, and his two friends, Raafat, the famous composer, and Sayed, the veterinarian, are shocked, and they decide together to abandon ev...
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Al-Ozab Al-Thalatha
1968
Eve and the monkey
0/0
Nadia is jealous of her husband in a satisfactory way, she discovers that he is in a relationship with a dancer and she falls into a psychological cri...
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Eve and the monkey
1966
Fares Bani Hemdan
0/0
Abu Firas al-Hamdani is a famous Arab poet from the princes of the Hamdani state, as he is known for his equestrian and courage, he lives between the...
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Fares Bani Hemdan
1965
El talata yuhebbunaha
0/0
The film tells about the girl, Iman, who deals with people in her free nature, so she watches as often as she wants and goes out with the youth for wa...
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El talata yuhebbunaha
1965
El mughammerun el talata
0/0
Three teenage friends spend their time on adventures and neglect their studies, they are asked to the army to perform military service, they succeed i...
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El mughammerun el talata
1964
First Love
0/0
Muhammad fails to pass the diploma exam and does not care about his studies or success in his life, his father (Mohamed Reda) turns to a psychiatrist...
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First Love
1963
The Little Charmer
8.5/2
Haniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her...
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The Little Charmer
1964
The Teenagers
0/0
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The Teenagers
1963
Serr el hareba
0/0
After Ismail’s father Ismail is killed, and his mother marries the owner of the company that his dead father worked for, Ahmed turns away to get to kn...
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Serr el hareba
1964
Hekayet Gawaz
6.5/2
On the night of the wedding of Mohamed (Shukry Sarhan) with Adela (Souad Hosny), a letter arrives to Mohamed benefits that he was promoted and so move...
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Hekayet Gawaz
1963
Zizi's Family
7.1/8
The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.
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Zizi's Family
1963
Shakawet banat
0/0
Sons of Sheikh "Salem" the supervisor of "Mahmoud bek" farm succeeded in high school, So he decided to bring them into Cairo University. Sheikh "Salem...
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Shakawet banat
1962
El ashkiaa el talata
0/0
Ahmed attends college while his friend Ramzi inherits a great legacy after the death of his father and sows his money because of his mother's pamperin...
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El ashkiaa el talata
1961
No Understanding
6/1
Mr. Shehata is a family man who lives in Port Said with his tyrannical wife and their children. In a desperate attempt to get relief, he spends most o...
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No Understanding
1961
H-3
0/0
When a doctor invents a formula that can restore youth, the 80-year-old Abbas takes the new formula and starts a new adventurous chapter as a young ma...
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H-3
1968
Baba Ayez Keda
0/0
Kamal is a shy young man who is involved with his classmate Nadia. As Nadia leaves for a few years with her family, Kamal becomes a famous designer wh...
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Baba Ayez Keda
1961
Why Am I Living
6/1
A good-hearted young man who's his family's sole source of financial support falls in love with his neighbor, all while he has to resist the temptatio...
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Why Am I Living
1961
Dearest Beloved
0/0
The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman...
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Dearest Beloved
1966
The Wedding Night
0/0
Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treat...
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The Wedding Night
1960
Money and Women
0/0
Shehata is a committed employee in a private hospital. He lives with his daughter Nemat and his wife. One day Hussein proposes to his daughter, but th...
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Money and Women
1960
Gharamiat emaraa
6/1
A beautiful woman looking for a rich husband but her greed causes her in problems .
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Gharamiat emaraa
1960
٣ رجال وإمرأة
0/0
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٣ رجال وإمرأة
1961
الضوء الخافت
0/0
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الضوء الخافت
1962
Men Gheir Ma'ad
0/0
Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love w...
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Men Gheir Ma'ad
1962
Ghosn Al-Zaytoun
0/0
The film's events revolve around Abdo (Ahmed Mazhar), who works as a teacher in a girls' school instead of his colleague Jamal (Omar Al-Hariri), who h...
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Ghosn Al-Zaytoun
1962
Meeting at the Tower
0/0
Adel and Amal meet during their return from a cruise and they fall in love and promise to marry after six months at the Cairo Tower. Will they manage...
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Meeting at the Tower
1977
Women in the City
0/0
To cover up a robbery, a plan is devised to set fire to the warehouse. When Youssef confides in Dalia about his concern over the fire, she reports him...
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