Hind Rostom
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Eshaet Hob
Hind Rostom
1960
Film
Cairo Station
Hanuma
1958
Film
Son of Hamido
عزيزة
1957
Film
Sleepless
Kawthar
1957
Film
Return My Heart
الراقصة كريمة
1957
Film
Three Thieves
Amina, the butcher's wife
1966
Film
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
Teama
1958
Film
Blood on the Nile
Ghalia
1961
Film
Conflict in the Nile
نرجس(الراقصة)
1959
Film
Woman on the Margin
هانم
1963
Film
The Flirtation of Girls
كومبارس صامت
1949
Film
Kiss Me in the Dark
لولا
1959
Film
Love In The Darkness
1953
Film
Me, My daughter and Love
1974
Film
Huwa wa el nessaa
فيفي
1966
Film
Tuha
توحة
1958
Film
Baba Amin
Sonia
1950
Film
The Victory of Islam
1952
Film
Al-Jasad
1955
Film
Love letter
Latifa
1954
Film
Coward in Love
Soad Hanim
1975
Film
My Beautiful Teacher
Nadia
1971
Film
The Den of the Wicked
فايزة
1972
Film
Tofahet Adam
Gamila
1966
Film
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1961
Film
The Single Husband
Azhar
1966
Film
Like A Matchstick
2016
Film
Banat Hawaa
One of the secretaries
1954
Film
Desire and Loss
ناهد
1972
Film
Al-Liqaa' Al Akhir
1953
Film
The Nun
Hoda/Sonia
1965
Film
Victory of Love
1954
Film
The Greatest Kid in the World
سامية
1972
Film
Lovers of the Night
1957
Film
Struggle with life
Samira - سميرة
1957
Film
My One And Only Love
نانا (الراقصة)
1957
Film
The Meek
1975
Film
the eternal love
امينة
1965
Film
The Great Love
1957
Film
El Khouroug Min El Guana
Anan
1967
Film
Between Heaven and Earth
ناهد شكري
1959
Film
Sweet Aziza
عزيزة
1969
Film
رجل بلا قلب
عايدة
1960
Film
Shayateen El Leyl
Rawheya
1966
Film
El Dam Yehen
1952
Film
Awattif
1958
Film
Men in the Storm
Aziza
1960
Film
A Husband’s Confession
Buthaina - بثينة (بوسة)
1964
Film
Soul and body
1948
Film
Love Crime
1955
Film
Boundless Love
نوسة لاعبة البيانولا
1960
Film
Love and madness
1948
Film
الحب الأخير
سميرة
1959
Film
Owner of Few Piasters
فواكة
1949
Film
The Big Brother
Rawhaya
1958
Film
El naas makamat
Daughter of Riad Pasha
1954
Film
Narges
الخياطة
1948
Film
The Charmer
Aziza
1958
Film
Queen of the Night
كريمة
1971
Film
The Surprises Motel
نبلة الراقصة
1959
Film
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
1963
Film
Sayed Darwish
جليلة
1966
Film
طريق الأبطال
نور عبدالله
1961
Film
Chahine…Why?
Self
2009
Film
Sett El Banat
mounria
1961
Film
Fatouma
Fatima
1961
Film
Big Teenager
Sonia
1961
Film
It happened one night
1954
Film
نساء وذئاب
مسعده / لوليت
1966
Film
دلوني يا ناس
سنية
1954
Film
Word of Honour
ناهد
1973
Film
Women Can’t Lie
Nabwiya
1954
Film
طريق السعادة
هند
1953
Film
A man and two women
1966
Film
The second groom
Wafaa Hanem
1967
Film
Banat Al-Lail
1955
Film
My Life is Hell
1979
Film
Bufakkar filli nassini
سوسن
1959
Film
The Silent Love
1958
Film
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Fathiya
1957