Wedad Hamdi | |
Birth Name: | Wedad Mehammad Elsawi Zaraarah |
Native Name: | وداد حمدى |
Birth Date: | 7 March 1924 |
Birth Place: | Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt |
Death Place: | Venus Building, Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt |
Death Cause: | Stabbing |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 1945–1994 |
Wedad Hamdi (وداد حمدى) was an Egyptian actress. She starred in over 600 films during her lifetime, and almost all her roles were as a servant or maid.[1]
Hamdi was born on 7 March 1924 in Kafr El-Sheikh. She studied at the Acting Institute and graduated after two years.[2] Hamdi started her career as a singer. Her first film was Henry Barakat's This Was My Father's Crime (1945).[3] She worked with the Egyptian National Troupe on several plays. Hamdi retired in the sixties but was called out of retirement to work on the play Tamr Henna.
Hamdi was married three times, to composer Muhammad al-Mougy and actors Salaah Kabeel and Muhammad al-Toukhy.
Hamdi was killed in 1994. She was stabbed 35 times in the neck, chest, and abdomen. Her killer was convicted and later executed. She died with very little money to her name.[4]