Huda Sultan

Huda Sultan or Hoda Sultan (Arabic: هـدى سلطان‎, Birth name: Bahiga Abd El Aal (Egyptian Arabic: بهيجة عبد العال‎)), (15 August 1925 – 5 June 2006) was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was mostly known for her mother roles in both Egyptian cinema and television.[1] She was also one of the most awarded actress for her roles, especially in musicals in the black and white movies where she played secondary roles. Sultan performed in hundreds of movies in her 56-year career.[2]

Huda Sultan
بهيجة عبد العال
Background information
Birth nameBahiga Abd El Aal
(Huda Sultan هـدى سلطان)
Born(1925-08-15)15 August 1925
Tanta, Kingdom of Egypt
Died5 June 2006(2006-06-05) (aged 80)
6th of October, Egypt
GenresEgyptian music
Occupation(s)Singer, actress

Life

Huda Sultan was born on 15 August 1925 in the rural Egyptian city of Tanta to a lower class family. She was the third of five siblings; one of her brother's was the renowned artist Mohamed Fawzi.[2] 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.

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 (brother of singer Farid al-Atrash), she divorced him in order to marry leading actor Farid Shawki.[2] 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 second husband Shawki, one of them, Nahed, who is a movie producer. Her granddaughter is actress Nahed El Sebai[2]

Career

In 1950 she starred in her first film "Set El Hosn" (Egyptian Arabic: ست الحسن‎, "The lady of beauty"); soon after, she married the Egyptian actor Farid Shawki and the couple had formed a successful duo and acted together in numerous films.[1] Some of her most notable works are the films; "El Fetewa" (Egyptian Arabic: الفتوة‎, "The Bully"), "Emra’a Fel Tareeq" (Arabic: إمرأة في الطريق‎, "A Woman in the Road"), "Shaye' Fe Sadry" (Arabic: شئ في صدري‎, "Something in My Heart"). Also Youssef Chahine's "El Ekhtyar" (Egyptian Arabic: الإختيار‎, "The Choice"), and "El Wada'a Ya Banobart" (Egyptian Arabic: الوداع يا بونبارت‎, "Farewell Bonaparte").[1]

Death

In 2006 she died, at the age of 81 years, after a battle with lung cancer, at Dar Al Fouad in 6th of October, Egypt.[1]

References
  1. "Huda Sultan – Biography". IMDb. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. "Leading Egyptian actress dies". Al Jazeera. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2020.


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