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Soad Mohamed Hosny (Arabic:سعاد محمد حسني) (January 26, 1942, in Ataba, Cairo, Egypt – June 21, 2001 in London) was a famous Egyptian actress.

Hosny was known as the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema and one of the most influential actresses in the artistic arena. She ascended to stardom in the end of the 1950s, performing in more than 83 films between 1959 and 1991 . A majority of her films were shot in the 1960s and 1970s.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.

Contents 1 Career 2 Family 2.1 Notable family members 2.2 Marriages 3 Death 4 Selected filmography 5 External links

Hosny started her career at a very young age, through singing Okht El Qamar (Sister of the Moon) in the famous radio children program Baba Sharo.

A family friend, Abdel Rahman el-Khamissy (a writer / director) discovered her acting talent and asked an Arabic language teacher at the time to give her singing lessons.

Abdel Rahman was screening for the film ‘Hassan We Na’ima’, and wanted to present Hosny as his new discovery in the role of Na’ima. The film was produced and directed by Henry Barakat.

• Father: Mohammad Hosny - Egyptian calligrapher
• Half sister: Nagat el Saghira - Egyptian singer
• Brother: Ezz Eddin Hosny - music composer
• Brother: Sami Hosni - Cello Musician / Jewelry Designer / Arabic calligrapher

Hosny was married for twelve years to film director Ali Badrakhan, whom she became pregnant from and, shortly after, miscarried. She later married Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, the son of Fateen Abdel Wahab (film director) and Leila Mourad. Hosny's marriage was to director Salah Kurim.Her last husband was to screenwriter Maher Awad. She married Ali Badrakhan.

Hosny died in London, England in 2001. This occurred after she had suffered severely from an unknown illness for five years. Hosny had sought treatment in the UK after sustaining a spinal fracture which had forced her to leave Egypt.

In 2001, she was found on the sidewalk below the building in which she was living; she had fallen from the balcony of her apartment. Courts in England could not decide whether Hosny had committed suicide or had been killed by her care-taker. In 2002, however, British courts decided that the cause of Hosny's death had been a suicide, although substantial evidence suggested she had been murdered when she was found^{[citation needed]}. Hosny was under therapy for depression at the time. She died on Abdel Halim Hafez's birthday – one of the many people who influenced her on screen and in her real life.

A friend was on her way home from evening classes at around 9:10pm when she saw Hosni standing on the balcony. She thought, how nice, shes waiting for me to come home.

It was only when Yousri reached her apartment and couldn't find the actress that she realized the awful truth.

"I looked down and I found her there."

• Hassan wa Na'ima (Hassan and Na’ima) (1959).
• Esha'a hob (Rumour of Love) (1960).
• Banat waal saif, El (The Girls and the Summer) (1960).
• He talata (H-3) (1961).
• Aaz el habaieb (I Want Love) (1961).
• Ghosn el zeitoun (The Olive Branch) (1962).
• Dow el khafet, El (The Dim Light) (1962).
• Mawed fil borj (Meeting at the Tower) (1963).
• Al-sahera al-saghira (The Little Sorceress) (1963).
• Morahekan, El (The Two Young Men) (1964).
• Garima el dahika, El (The Funny Crime) (1964).
• Awwal hob (First Love) (1964).
• Ariss yassel ghadan, El (The Bridegroom Arrives Tomorrow) (1964).
• Tareek, al- (The Road) (1964).
• Gharamiyat Imraa (A Woman's Affairs) (1966).
• Shakket el talaba (Students' Apartment) (1966).
• Chakawet rejala (The Awful Men) (1966).
• Lailat el zafaf (The Wedding Night) (1966).
• Al-Kahira thalatheen (Cairo 1930) (1966).
• Saghira ala elhob (Too Young to Love) (1966).
• Shabab magnoun geddan (Very Crazy Youth) (1967).
• Lekaa el tani, El (The Second Meeting) (1967).
• Zawja al-thaniya, al- (The Second Wife) (1967).
• Zawag alla tarika el-hadissa (Marriage a la moderne) (1968).
• Sit el-nazra, El- (The Headmistress) (1968).

• Nil wal-Hayat, al- (The People of the Nile) (1968).
• Baba ayez keda (Daddy Wants it That Way) (1968).
• Ikhtiyar, al- (The Choice) (1970).
• Al-hob al-dayi (Lost Love) (1970).
• Zawgati wal-kalb (My Wife and the Dog) (1971).
• Khalli Balak min Zouzou (Watch out for Zouzou) (1972).
• Ghurabaa (Strangers) (1973).
• Amira hobi ana (My Love Amira) (1974).
• Ala min notliq al-rasas (Whom Should We Shoot?) (1975).
• Al-Karnak (The Karnak Cafe) (1975).
• Chafika wa Metwalli (Chafika and Metwalli) (1979).
• Maowid ala ashaa (A Dinner Date) (1981).
• Al -Mashbouh (The Suspect) (1984).
• Howa wa Heya (Him and Her) (TV series with Ahmed Zaki).
• Al-Ra'i wal Nisaa (The Shepherd and the Women) (1991).

• Soad Hosny at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website (Arabic)
• Egyptian screen star dies - BBC News
• Egyptians mourn screen Cinderella - BBC News