Wadad Hamdi’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Egyptian actress (1924-1994)
Was Actor
Film actor
From Egypt
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender female
Birth

7 March 1924, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt

Death

26 March 1994
(aged 70 years)

Star sign Pisces

Widad Hamdi (Arabic: وداد حمدى‎) was an Egyptian actress. She starred in over 600 films during her lifetime.

Early life and career

Hamdi was born on March 7, 1924 in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt. She studied at the Institute of Representation and graduated after two years. Hamdi started her career as a singer. Her first film was Henry Barakat’s This Was My Father’s Crime (1945).
She worked with the Egyptian National Troupe on several plays. Hamdi retired in the sixties but was called out of retirement to work on the play Tamr Henna.

Hamdi was married 3 times, to composer Muhammad al-Mougy and actors Salaah Kabeel and Muhammad al-Toukhy.

Death

Hamdi was killed in 1994. She was stabbed 35 times in the neck, chest, and abdomen. Her killer was convicted and later, executed. She died with very little money to her name.

Selected filmography

Film

  • Bread and Salt (1949)
  • Miss Hanafi (1954)
  • Fatawat el Husseinia (1955)
  • The Female Boss (1959)
  • Hassan and Nayima (1959)
  • Wife Number 13 (1962)
  • Soft Hands (1964)

Plays

  • Azeeza and Younis
  • 20 Hens and a Rooster (20 farkha we deek)
  • A Game Called Love (L’eba esmaha al-hobb)
  • Mother of Rateeba (Om-Rateeba)
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