Magda El-Khatib

Magda El-Khatib is an Egyptian film, stage, television actress and film producer. She participated in over hundred artworks through her career. She was one of the most popular Egyptian actresses in the golden age of Egyptian cinema.
Life and career
El-Khatib was born in Cairo. Her uncle is actor Zaki Rostom. She started her career with at the age of seventeen with a small role in Love and Pleasure (1960), followed by Melody of Happiness (1960). She acted in secondary roles before obtaining her first major role in the The Mountain (1965) directed by Khalil Shawky and was chosen among the 100 best films in the history of Egyptian cinema in 1996. Her first leading role was in Imtithal (1966).
Her notable film roles include Half an Hour of Marriage (1969) with Rushdy Abaza, Shadia, and Adel Emam. In 1970, she performed her first starring role in Hassan Al-Imam's Dalal, the Egyptian which was her career breakthrough and placed among leading actors, and qualified her to perform starring roles in other films, including; A Furnished Apartment (1970), The Game of Each Day (1971), and Something in My Chest (1971). She starred in Chitchat on the Nile (1971) by Hussein Kamal, based on Naguib Mahfouz's story with the same name the film was a critical and financial success. Followed by Some People Live Twice (1971). In 1972, she starred in Imtithal by Hassan El-Imam. The film was a success. El-Khatib produced and starred in Visitor at Dawn in 1973, the film criticized the Nasserist era. In 1974 she produced the In Summer We Must Love (1974) starring Salah Zulfikar, with whom she co-starred in Roadless Traveler (1978). In the 1980s, She co-starred in Youssef Chahine's An Egyptian Story (1982), followed by a leading role in El Awamma 70 (1982) alongside Ahmed Zaki. She starred in The Cursed House (1987) alongside Kamal El-Shennawi. She participated in a number of television works such as The Butterfly, Zizinia, The Edge of a Knife, and A Woman from Upper Egypt. Her last acting scene was in the series No One Sleeps in Alexandria. El-Khatib has participated in more than 55 films in her career. She won the Golden Pyramid Acting Award in 1966 for her performance in Dalal the Egyptian. She also received the Best Actress Award for a second role in Tufahha (1996). Her last work was the television miniseries To The End of the World, starring Nelly Karim.
In 1982, El-Khatib was sentenced with a suspended one year in prison for manslaughter after hitting a pedestrian with her car. She was imprisoned in 1985 as a result of a drug related case in which she was involved, and was beaten by the police during her arrest. She was in Greece when she was sentenced, she stayed in Greece and returned in the 1990s. She returned to acting in the mid-1990s in secondary roles.
In 2006, she suffered from severe pneumonia and was transferred to a hospital. It was discovered that she had kidney failure and was placed on a respirator until she died at the age of 63.
Filmography
1959: Love and Pleasure
1960: Melody of Happiness
1960: Albanat walsayfu
1962: Baqaya eadhra'
1965: Alrijal la yatazawajun aljamilati
1965: The Mountain
1966: Qasr alshawqa
1966: al'asdiqa' althalathatu
1967: measkar albanati
1967: shantat hamza
1967: bayt altaalibat
1968: qindil 'am hashimi
1968: bint min albanati
1968: alast alnaazirata
1969: Half an Hour of Marriage
1970: A Place Beside the Devil
1970: A Furnished Apartment
1970: A Wife for five Men
1970: Dalal, the Egyptian
1971: Something in My Chest
1971: Chitchat on the Nile
1971: Some People Live Twice
1971: The Game of Each Day
1972: sur mamnueatun
1972: Imtithal
1972: The Quiet City
1973: masaat alduktur husni
1973: shaqat lilhubi
1973: Visitor at Dawn
1973: A Woman from Cairo
1974: In Summer We Must Love
1974: eajayib ya ziman
1974: alshawarie alkhalfia
1974: al'ahdan aldaafiati
1975: majaanin bialwiratha
1975: alhub that almutri
1975: ahtarsi min alrijal ya mama
1976: Tawheeda
1976: 'akhawatuh albanati
1977: Mouths and Rabbits
1977: 13 Lies and a lie
1978: Roadless Traveler
1980: Tomorrow is my Revenge
1980: Always My Lover
1980: tahqiq
1980: Al Mutaham
1981: hakamat almahkama
1981: Umahat fi almanfaa
1982: An Egyptian Story
1982: Al Awwama 70
1982: Aleaskariu shibrawi
1983: Amamlakat alhalwasa
1984: Please Give this Medicine
1986: Aawriat nasi allayl
1986: Alhurub min alkhanka
1986: Abin tahiat eazuza
1987: The Cursed House
1987: Alaintifada
1988: Almar'at walqanun
1996: Ya dunya ya ghrami
1997: halq hush
1997: Tofahha
1997: El Batal
1997: Iithr hadith 'alim
1998: Mujrim mae martabat alsharafi
1998: Our Blessed Aunt
1998: El Qatl El Lazeez
2000: Wahayat qalbi wa'afrahuh
2000: Sahar 'afriqiun
2001: nahb eishat alhuriyati
2001: Skut hansur
2003: Min nazrat eayn
2004: Alexandria... New York
2005: Khali min alkulistruli
2005: Hamada Plays
2005: Banat wust Albalad
2005: Ahlam eumarna
2006: Haneen
2006: Awdet El Nadla
2006: Special Relationships
2006: Real Dreams
2006: To the End of the World
References
External links
1943 births
2006 deaths
Egyptian film producers
Egyptian film actors
Egyptian television actors
Egyptian stage actors
20th-century Egyptian actors
People from Cairo