Nagwa Salem

Biography

An Egyptian actress of Lebanese descent, where she was born to a Lebanese father and a Spanish Jewish mother. She worked in theater and cinema since the forties of the twentieth century, where she worked in the theater for the first time with the artist Naguib Al-Rihani, while in the cinema she presented films (Gram and Revenge, The Five Pounds, Samson and Pulp, Hassan, Morcos and Cohen). She married art critic Abdel Fattah Al-Baroudi, and she had declared her conversion to Islam in 1960.

Known For

Albijamat alhamra'

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen

as سمحة

Passion and Revenge

as خيرية

The Seven Daughters

only five (play)

as زُهرة

30 Days in Prison

Al koubla al akhira

Yama Kan Fy Nefsi

as وجيدة

Hayati hi althaman

Ismail Yassine in Damascus

as Helen