Soad Hosni (January 26, 1943 - June 21, 2001); An Egyptian actress and singer. She was chosen in the celebration of the centenary of Egyptian cinema in 1996, to be in second place in the poll for the best actress in the twentieth century, and critics chose eight films of her starring in the list of the best hundred Egyptian films, thus becoming the actress with the record in partnership with Faten Hamama.
Soad Hosni was born in Cairo and was discovered by the poet Abdel Rahman al-Khamisi, who included her in his play Hamlet by Shakespeare, then director Henry Barakat included her for the starring role in his movie Hassan and Naima in 1959, then she continued to present many films during the period of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, and among her most famous films: Young for love, the second wife, Cairo 30, and keep in mind from Zozo and others, and her film credit reached 91 films.
Soad Hosni won many film awards and was honored by President Anwar El-Sadat in 1979 at the Art Day celebrations, and in 1987 she began suffering from spinal health problems that made her stay away from the spotlight and acting, and her last work was Shepherd and Women in 1991.
She died on June 21, 2001, after falling from the balcony of an apartment in which she was staying in London. There were conflicting reports and statements about her death, between suspicions of her murder or suicide, and the issue of her death constituted a great mystery that has not been resolved so far.
Souad was born in the Bulaq neighborhood in Cairo, to a father whose origins go back to the Levant. Her father is Muhammad Kamal Hosni al-Baba, the famous Arab calligrapher who moved from Syria with his father, “Hosni al-Baba” - he was a well-known singer in Damascus - to Cairo in 1912, to appoint a calligrapher. At the Royal Institute of Arabic Calligraphy, and her mother, Jawhara Muhammad Hassan Saffour, is an Egyptian, and she also belongs to a Homsi family. She had sixteen brothers and sisters, and she was the tenth rank among her sisters, she has only two sisters, “Kawthar” and “Sabah,” and eight brothers and sisters to her father, including four brothers and four sisters, and six sisters to her mother, including three brothers and three sisters, and one of the most famous of her sisters From the father, singer Najat Al Saghira.
Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her mother married a second husband, Abdel Moneim Hafez, the inspector of education in Cairo, and her three daughters, Kawthar, Souad and Sabah, are in her custody. Souad did not enter regular schools and her education was limited to the home. The first meeting between her and her cousin Anwar al-Baba, the Syrian artist, was in 1963 at the home of the Lebanese artist, Muhammad Shamil.
Her artistic life
Soad Hosni in a scene from the movie Hassan and Naima
The credit for discovering Souad’s artistic talent goes back to the poet Abdel Rahman al-Khamisi. He involved her in his play Hamlet of Shakespeare as Ophelia, and then director Henry Barakat included her in his film crew, Hassan and Naima as Naima, and the film was released in 1959, after which she continued her work. cinematic. The films Hassan and Naima, Small on Love, Sunset and Sunrise, The Second Wife, Where is My Mind, Shafiqa and Metwally, Karnak, and Amira My Love Anna are among her most famous films, in addition to her movie “Keep in mind from Zuzu”, which is considered by many to be her most famous films ever, until it came to the point of Many people know her by her name in the movie, "Zuzu". She also participated with director Salah Abu Seif in the Al-Qadisiyah movie, which depicts the story of the Battle of Al-Qadisiyah in detail. She began acting in 1959, and her cinematic score reached 91 films, including four films outside Egypt, and most of her films she filmed in the period from 1959 to 1970, in addition to one television series, "He and She", and eight radio series, and her first film role was in a film Hassan and Naima in 1959, the last of which is the movie The Shepherd and the Women in 1991, co-starring Ahmed Zaki and actress Yousra. Her last work was a radio poetry-sound work called "Ajabi" from the Rubaiyat of Salah Jahin, which she recorded for BBC Arabic Radio in London, in addition to her presentation of the poem "Al-Makanji" by Salah Jahin as well, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in support of the Palestinian people.
Her personal life
Soad married five times during her life, one of which is officially unconfirmed and is her first marriage, as some of her family members and those close to her spoke that she had customarily married Abdel Halim Hafez, a marriage confirmed by some Egyptian journalists such as Mofeed Fawzy, who is a friend of Abdel Halim, saying In one of the seminars in Alexandria: “He keeps important documents and a cassette tape for this incident, but he does not want to take advantage of such personal issues.” This marriage remained unrecognized by her family until after her death, until her half-sister Ganga Abdel Moneim said - Through the website that she created about Souad - that her family finally acknowledged the marriage of "Soad" to Abdel Halim Hafez, and added him to the list of her husbands, bringing the number of her marriages to five. Ironically, the date of her death June 21, 2001 coincides with the birthday of Abdel Halim Hafez on June 21, 1929, and their customary marriage lasted nearly six years, when they separated in 1965. A year later, Souad married photographer and director Salah Karim for about two years, when they divorced in In 1968, she married Ali Badrakhan, son of director Ahmed Badrakhan, in 1970, and her marriage to him lasted for eleven years, until they separated in 1981, and then in the same year, she married Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, son of Laila Murad, who was a final year student in the department. Directing at the Film Institute, but they separated after only a few months of marriage due to the opposition of Fatin's mother. Her last marriage was in 1987 to screenwriter Maher Awad, who died while she was in his custody. Despite her many marriages, she never wore a wedding dress in any of them, and she did not give birth to any son or daughter despite her multiple pregnancies from Ali Badr Khan, where he ended up in miscarriage due to the pressure she was exposed to during her work.
Her health condition
During Souad's filming of the series "He and She", the symptoms and pains of her spinal injury began to appear. After she had pressure in the blood vessels and a rupture in the arteries that made her feel unbearable pain in the feet, which caused her injuries and great pain in the back and spine, during this period of injury, she was offered to participate in her last movie "The Shepherd and Women" and despite the aches she suffers, she agreed to Work, which increased pressure on her, due to the worsening of her health condition, forcing her in 1992 to travel on a medical trip to France in order to perform a surgery on her spine, during which the treating surgeon fixed the two vertebrae through a metal plate, to return after a period of time To Cairo to practice her normal and normal life, but soon the same pain returned to her with more force than her predecessors, to have facial paralysis, resulting from a viral infection in the seventh nerve, which made her undergo treatment by taking cortisone, which caused her a significant increase in weight, which is what It affected her psychological state, but what greatly worsened her health was the death of her mother, which had a great impact on herself, which made her cut off cortisone treatment suddenly and without preparation, to then suffer a setback (the return of the disease), forcing her to travel at her own expense to London for treatment. -
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