Madiha Salem
Acting
Biography
Madiha Salem is an Egyptian actress who was born in Cairo in 1944. After graduating from the Zamalek School for Girls, she did not continue with her studies. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Madiha appeared in a number of films, the most famous of which include: “Ah Min Hawa,” “Mozakreyat Telmeza” (Memories of a Schoolgirl), “Um El Aroosa” (Mother of the Bride), “Hiya We El Rigaal” (She and the Guys), “El Ragul Da Hayeginnee” (That Man Will Drive Me Crazy). She stopped acting at the beginning of the 1980s to make time for her family life.
Born: October 2, 1944
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Known For
The Last Night
A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's name.
Dawn of a New Day
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
Beware of Eve
Her grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.
The Black Cat
One of the Black Cat's accomplices murders a person and Mamdouh becomes the prime suspect.
Thieves but Cute
Hamid and Ismail are two thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store which can only be broken into from the ground of the apartment above it, inhabited by a couple whose relationship is precarious and complicated.
The Mother of the Bride
This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
Love & Pride
After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.
Al-Alamein
Alia and Fawaz are two lovers who belong to two different Bedouin tribes. Despite their feelings for each other, it soon becomes apparent that they can not get married.
The Great Adventure
Yassin is a fame-seeker who makes a deal with the lawyer, Samir, to falsely confess to a famous murder, in the hopes that the media attention will benefit them both, as Samir proves Yassin's innocence at the last moment. But when Yassin is implicated in the crime, Samir has to find the real killer to save him.
The Nile and the Life
Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as they embarked on the momentous dam enterprise. The films presents a vision of a nation deep rooted in unity as well as diversity. The films projection of a renewed imagining of the nation inadvertently acknowledges a new and nuanced understanding of its goals, political objectives, and how these impact the personal within it. (KHOURI)
Filmography
as نادية
as فاطمة
as Aziza
as نشوى
as Inas
as Mona Ahmed Hamdy
as Layla
as سميرة عبد الرحمن
as Fatma
as Suhair
as Nawal نوال
as Magda
as Samia
as نبيلة حسين مرزوق
as ليلى
as علية
as Nadia, Amira's sister