Nagwa Salem
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen
1960
as سمحة
Dreams of the Youth
1942
as ضيفة فى الفرح
Albijamat alhamra'
1967
The King of Petrol
1962
as Naasa
Passion and Revenge
1944
as خيرية
Ismail Yassine in Damascus
1958
as Helen
Nahed
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as Nahed's friend
The Seven Daughters
1961
Soul and body
1948
Hassan, Morcos and Cohen
1954
as سمحة
Hayati hi althaman
1961
Couples and summer
1961
as Khadra the maid
A Bachelor’s Life
1963
as عزيزة
Lokanda Alfardos
1964
as سميحة
Al koubla al akhira
1967
as سوسن
Bayn Narayn
1945
only five (play)
1963
as زُهرة
أصل وصورة
1963
as سيده فى المطعم
Eayida
1942
as فاطمه (تلميذه في المعهد)
Leila, Daughter of the Poor
1945