Native name زبيدة ثروت Role Film actress Occupation Actress Siblings Hekmat Tharwat | Years active 1956–1987 Ex-spouse Sobhy Farahat Name Zubaida Tharwat | |
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Full Name Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat Born June 15, 1940 (age 84) ( 1940-06-15 ) Alexandria, Egypt Children Rim Sobhy Hussein Farahat Parents Ahmed Tharwat, Zubaida Hussein Kamel Similar People Profiles | ||
The egyptian actress zubaida tharwat
Zubaida Tharwat (14 June 1940 – 13 December 2016) (Arabic: زبيدة ثروت [zebeːda sarwat]) was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress who was known for "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema".
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Biography
Zubaida was born in Alexandria in 1940. She is of Circassian descent. Tharwat revealed that her mother was Princess Zubaida Hussein Kamel, daughter of Hussein Kamel who was the son of Khedevi Ismail . Her father, Ahmed Tharwat, was a Navy officer. As a teenager she won a beauty contest in an Egyptian teen magazine which widely published her photograph and got her the attention of directors and producers. She studied at the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University. She made her brief first appearance in the 1956 film Dalila alongside stars of the day Shadia and Abdel Halim Hafez. She went on to work in many other films with other famous actors such as Rushdy Abaza, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Youssef Wahbi, Kamal el-Shennawi, Soad Hosny and Omar Sharif. She retired from acting in the late 1980s. During her career, she was given many nicknames such as The Pussycat of Arab Cinema, Magic Eyes and The Queen of Romance.
Personal life
Tharwat married five times and had four daughters with her second husband, producer Sobhy Farahat.
