Born: February 19, 1908
From: Alexandria, Egypt
Fatma Roshdi is an Egyptian actress who was born in Alexandria in 1908. She began her acting career at a young age, when (director) Ameen Attallah cast her in one of his acting troupeâs plays. Afterwards, she acted with a number of theater troupes, working alongside Abdel Rahman Rushdi, Sayyed Darwish, Aziz Eid, and Youseff Wehbe. Starting in the mid-1920s, Fatima starred in a significant number of plays, including: âEl Sahraaââ (The Desert), âEl Qanâaa El Azraqâ (The Blue Mask), âEl Nasr El Sagheerâ (LâAiglon), and âEl Horreyaâ (Freedom). After separating from Aziz Eid, Fatima created her own private theater troupe, which became one of the most illustrious theater troupes. At the end of the 1920s, Fatima began her cinematic career. Her first film was âFagâaa Foq El Haramâ (Tragedy on the Pyramids) in 1928. She starred in a number of films until the 1950s, including âThamin El Saaâdaâ (The Price of Happiness), âEl Aâmilâ (The Worker), âEl Tareeq El Mostaqeemâ (The Virtuous Path), âMedina El Ghajer,â âEl âAzeemaâ (Determination), âEl Jassidâ (The Body). She stopped acting at the end of the 1960s, and died in 1996 at the age of 87.