Huda Sultan
Huda Sultan or Hoda Sultan, was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was also one of the most awarded actress for her roles, especially in musicals in the black and white films where she played secondary and leading roles. Sultan performed in hundreds of films in Egyptian cinema in a 56-year career.
Early life
Huda Sultan was born on 15 August 1925 in the rural Egyptian city of Tanta to a rural conservative family. She was the third of five siblings; one of her brothers was the renowned artist Mohamed Fawzi. She was born as Bahiga Abd El-Aal, but later adopted her new acting name, Huda Sultan, after many suggestions from prominent Egyptian Cinema producers that her birth name was too rural.
Career
In 1950 she starred in her first film "Set El Hosn" ; soon after, she married the Egyptian actor Farid Shawqi and the couple had formed a successful duo and acted together in numerous films as well with Egypt's leading actors such as: Salah Zulfikar, Rushdy Abaza and Shoukry Sarhan. Her most notable works are in the films; "El Fetewa", Ezz El-Dine Zulficar’s "Emra’a Fel Tareeq" with Shoukry Sarhan and Rushdy Abaza, "Nessa Muharramat" with Salah Zulfikar.In 1960, she starred "Serr Imra'a" with Salah Zulfikar and Emad Hamdy. In 1968, she appeared in “Thalath Nesaa” with Salah Zulfikar, Shoukry Sarhan and Ahmed Ramzy. "Shaye' Fe Sadry" with Rushdy Abaza. Also Youssef Chahine's "El Ekhtyar" with Soad Hosny. In 1976, she co-starred in "Awdat Al Ibn Aldal" with Shoukry Sarhan, and "El Wada'a Ya Banobart" with Salah Zulfikar, Patrice Chéreau and Michel Piccoli. In 1986, Sultan starred in "Min Fadlik Wa Ihsanik" with Salah Zulfikar and Hesham Selim.
Personal life
Marriages
Sultan married five times: her first husband, Mohamed Naguib, was a prominent Egyptian government official who did not agree to his wife's celebrity status and divorced her soon after her first movie. Her second husband was an Egyptian movie producer, and her third husband was Fowad Al-Atrash, she divorced him in order to marry leading actor Farid Shawqi. She then married director Hassan Abdel Salam.
Children
Sultan had one daughter with her first husband, Mohamed Naguib, called Maha, and two daughters with her fourth husband Shawqi, one of them, Nahed, who is a movie producer. Her granddaughter is actress Nahed El Sebai
Death
In 2006 she died of lung cancer, at the age of 81 years, after a long illnesss, at Dar Al Fouad on 6th of October.