Zubaida Tharwat

Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat (Egyptian Arabic: زبيدة أحمد ثروت; 15 June 1940 – 13 December 2016), was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress. She started her acting career in 1956, and quickly rose to stardom in Egypt. After six years hiatus in the 1960s, she returned to acting in 1969, and retired in the 1980s. Tharwat was known as "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema". Tharwat was born into a prominent Egyptian family in Alexandria. After graduating from the University of Alexandria in 1951, she won a beauty contest in an Egyptian teen magazine in 1955, which widely published her photograph and brought her attention of filmmakers in Egyptian film Industry. Tharwat made her film debut in Dalila (1956) and gained stardom from her roles in Hekayt 3 Banat (1957), El-Malak el-Sagheir (1957), and Bent 17 (1958). During the late 1950s, Tharwat established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like A'ashat lelhob (1959), Shams La Tagheeb (1959), Ehtrsi mn el-Hob (1959). In one year, she starred in Inni Attahem (1960), opposite Salah Zulfikar, Youm min Omri (1961), opposite Abdel Halim Hafez, followed by There is a Man in our House (1961), opposite Omar Sharif, and all films were commercially successful. After seven years hiatus from film, she returned by starring in How to Get Rid of Your Wife (1969). In the 1970s, she also had notable roles in; El-Hob El-Daea (1970), The Other Man (1973), and The Guilty (1975).