Hind Rostom

Hind Rostom

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Hind Rostom is an Egyptian actress, born in Muharram Bey, Alexandria in 1929 to a father from a Turkish-Egyptian family. Her full name is Hind Hussein Murad Rostom, and she studied...Read more at Saint Vincent de Paul School, then moved to Cairo in 1946, where she was taken by chance to the United Film Company to work in a small role with Yehia Chahine in the movie Flowers and Thorns. She became the most famous and most important seduction star in Egyptian cinema at the hands of director Hassan El-Emam. Although her first starring roles were seduction, as in the movie The Body, she soon changed her identity in other films as in Woman on the Margin. She has never acted in the theater, and won many awards for her films, especially The Coward and Love (1975). She decided to retire from cinema in the late seventies, and was honored in the Cairo International Film Festival in 1993. Hind Rostom passed away on August 8, 2011 at the age of 82 due to a severe heart attack.