Biography
Huda Sultan or Hoda Sultan (Arabic: هدى سلطان, Birth name: Bahiga Abd El Aal (Egyptian Arabic: بهيجة عبد العال)), (15 August 1925 – 5 June 2006) was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was mostly known for her mother roles in both Egyptian cinema and television. She was also one of the most awarded actress for her roles, especially in musicals in the black and white movies where she played secondary and leading roles. Sultan performed in hundreds of movies in her 56-year career.
Huda Sultan was born on 15 August 1925 in the rural Egyptian city of Tanta to a lower class family. She was the third of five siblings; one of her brothers was the renowned artist Mohamed Fawzi. She was born as Bahiga Abd El-Aal, but later adopted her new acting name, Huda Sultan, after many suggestions from prominent Egyptian Cinema producers that her birth name was too rural.
In 1950 she starred in her first film "Set El Hosn" (Egyptian Arabic: ست الحسن, "The lady of beauty"); soon after, she married the Egyptian actor Farid Shawki and the couple had formed a successful duo and acted together in numerous films as well with Egypt's leading actors such as: Salah Zulfikar, Rushdy Abaza and Shoukry Sarhan.
Huda Sultan with Salah Zulfikar in a romantic scene from the 1959 film Forbidden Women.
Some of her most notable works are the films; "El Fetewa" (Egyptian Arabic: الفتوة, "The Bully"), Ezz El-Dine Zulficar’s "Emra’a Fel Tareeq" (Arabic: إمرأة في الطريق, "A Woman in the Road"), "Nessa Muharramat" (Egyptian Arabic: نساء محرمات, "Forbidden Women") with Salah Zulfikar, “Thalath Nesaa” (Egyptian Arabic: ثلاث نساء, “Three Women”) with Salah Zulfikar and Shoukry Sarhan. "Shaye' Fe Sadry" (Arabic: شئ في صدري, "Something in My Heart") with Rushdy Abaza. Also Youssef Chahine's "El Ekhtyar" (Egyptian Arabic: الإختيار, "The Choice") with Soad Hosny, and "El Wada'a Ya Banobart" (Egyptian Arabic: الوداع يا بونبارت, "Adieu Bonaparte") with Salah Zulfikar.
In 2006 she died, at the age of 81 years, after a battle with lung cancer, at Dar Al Fouad in 6th of October, Egypt.
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