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Egyptian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magda El-Khatib (Egyptian Arabic: ماجدة الخطيب) is an Egyptian film, stage, television actress and film producer. She participated in over hundred artworks through her career.[1] She was notable for her roles in the golden age of Egyptian cinema.[2]
Magda El-Khatib | |
|---|---|
| ماجدة الخطيب | |
Magda El-Khatib, 1969 | |
| Born | Magda Mohamed Kamel El-Khatib 2 October 1943 |
| Died | 16 October 2006 (aged 63) Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Occupation | Actress • film producer |
| Years active | 1960–2006 |
| Relatives | Zaki Rostom (Uncle) |
El-Khatib was born in Cairo. Her uncle is actor Zaki Rostom.[3] 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 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).[4] 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,[5] based on Naguib Mahfouz's story with the same name the film was a critical and financial success.[6][7][8] Followed by Some People Live Twice (1971). In 1972, she starred in Imtithal by Hassan El-Imam. The film was a success.[9] El-Khatib produced and starred in Visitor at Dawn in 1973, the film criticized the Nasserist era.[10][11] In 1974 she produced the In Summer We Must Love (1974) starring Salah Zulfikar, with whom she co-starred in Roadless Traveler (1978).[12][13]
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.[14] 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.[15][16][17] 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).[18] Her last work was the television miniseries To The End of the World, starring Nelly Karim.[19]
In 1982, El-Khatib was sentenced with a suspended one year in prison for manslaughter after hitting a pedestrian with her car.[20] 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.[21] She returned to acting in the mid-1990s in secondary roles.[22][23][24]
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.[25]
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