Hind Rostom
Biography
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
Known For
Cairo Station
1958
0جحيم الغيرة
1953
Conflict in the Nile
1959
0Ragol bila Qalb
1960
0The Silent Love
1958
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
1957
Between Heaven and Earth
1959
Three Thieves
1966
Eshaet Hob
1960
0Desire and Loss
1972
0Gawaher
1949
Son of Hamido
1957
Filmography
Cairo Station
as Hanuma · 1958
جحيم الغيرة
as إلهام · 1953
Conflict in the Nile
as نرجس(الراقصة) · 1959
Ragol bila Qalb
as عايدة · 1960
The Silent Love
as سميحة · 1958
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
as Fathiya · 1957
Between Heaven and Earth
as ناهد شكري · 1959
Three Thieves
as Amina, the butcher's wife · 1966
Eshaet Hob
as Hind Rostom · 1960
Desire and Loss
as ناهد · 1972
Gawaher
· 1949
Son of Hamido
as عزيزة · 1957
Oh The wonders of time
as Samiha / Fawzia Roushdy · 1974
Women Can’t Lie
as Nabwiya · 1954
The Den of the Wicked
as فايزة · 1972
Word of Honour
as ناهد · 1973
Fatouma
as Fatima · 1961
Soul and body
· 1948
Baba Amin
as Sonia · 1950
Love and madness
· 1948
Queen of the Night
as كريمة · 1971
My One And Only Love
as نانا (الراقصة) · 1957
Bufakkar filli nassini
as سوسن · 1959
Tofahet Adam
as Gamila · 1966
Tomorrow Is Another Day
· 1961
Return My Heart
as الراقصة كريمة · 1957
Men in the Storm
as Aziza · 1960
Chahine…Why?
as Self · 2009
Struggle with life
as Samira - سميرة · 1957
Like A Matchstick
· 2016
El Dam Yehen
· 1952
Sleepless
as Kawthar · 1957
The Flirtation of Girls
as كومبارس صامت · 1949
Banat Hawaa
as One of the secretaries · 1954
The Great Love
· 1957
The second groom
as Wafaa Hanem · 1967
Coward in Love
as Soad Hanim · 1975
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
as Teama · 1958
Owner of Few Piasters
as فواكة · 1949
Huwa wa el nessaa
as فيفي · 1966
Tuha
as توحة · 1958
Woman on the Margin
as هانم · 1963
نساء وذئاب
as مسعده / لوليت · 1966
The Surprises Motel
as نبلة الراقصة · 1959
Boundless Love
as نوسة لاعبة البيانولا · 1960
El naas makamat
as Daughter of Riad Pasha · 1954
The Body
· 1955
Big Teenager
as Sonia · 1961
Sweet Aziza
as عزيزة · 1969
The Victory of Islam
· 1952
الحب الأخير
as سميرة · 1959
Narges
as الخياطة · 1948
Al-Liqaa' Al Akhir
· 1953
Shayateen El Leyl
as Rawheya · 1966
طريق الأبطال
as نور عبدالله · 1961
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
as Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya · 1963
A Husband’s Confession
as Buthaina - بثينة (بوسة) · 1964
The Charmer
as Aziza · 1958
Blood on the Nile
as Ghalia · 1961
El Khouroug Min El Guana
as Anan · 1967
Me, My Daughter, and Love
as Siham · 1974
The Big Brother
as Rawhaya · 1958
Love letter
as Latifa · 1954
Love Crime
as ليلى · 1955
Banat Al-Lail
· 1955
The Greatest Kid in the World
as سامية · 1972
Awattif
· 1958
Love In The Darkness
· 1953
It happened one night
as فتاة في الكازينو · 1954
Kiss Me in the Dark
as لولا · 1959
A man and two women
· 1966
Lovers of the Night
· 1957
Sayed Darwish
as جليلة · 1966
The Nun
as Hoda/Sonia · 1965
The Single Husband
as Azhar · 1966
The path of happiness
as هند · 1953
دلوني يا ناس
as سنية · 1954
the eternal love
as امينة · 1965
Sett El Banat
as mounria · 1961
The Meek
· 1975
My Beautiful Teacher
as Nadia · 1971
My Life is Hell
· 1979
Victory of Love
· 1954