Nadia El Gendy (Also written as El Gindy and El Guindi; Arabic:
نادية الجندي‎) (born 1946 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian
actress and producer. She is often known in Egypt as "Negmet El
gamaheer" (the star of masses) because of the high commercial success
of her movies in the 1990s. Through her still on-going 6-decades
career, she has appeared in 61 movies and 7 TV shows. She is most
recognized for her femme fatale roles and spy movies related to
Egyptian-Israeli conflict and patriotic issues after 1952 revolution,
such as El Gasousa Hekmat Fahmy (1994), Mohemma Fi Tel Aviv (1992).
Also, she is known for various crime movies, ranging from vulgar drug
dealer in Egyptian suburbs to a professional thief.Started her work in
cinema after winning in a beauty contest in Cairo which gained her
debut 1958 in a small role in Youssef Chahine's historical movie about
the French Colonisim in North Africa, Gamila. In the sixties, she had
many various small roles. In early 1970s played the role of Zaghaga, a
local drug dealer, in TV soap opera al-Dawwama (The Whirlpool),
besides Mahmoud Yassin and then-young Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, the series
was very popular and was produced for theaters. In 1974 she earned
more recognition when she produced her own movie, Bamba Kashar, in
which she played the role of the real 20th belly dancer of the same
name, it was directed by Hassan El Imam as quite similar to his
typical melodrama characteristics, also contained many songs and
dances performed by El Gendy, the movies starred her then-husband,
Emad Hamdy, and notably despite the screening permits faced longtime
problems, it had had very wide success in theaters for many weeks.From
1980 to 1984, she starred in different commercially successful movies
and some of them were well-received by many critics, such as the role
of Neama't Allah in Wekalet El Balah, which is scripted by Nobel prize
laureate Naguib Mahfouz, which she appeared as a very strong boss in
old rural part in old Cairo and has her own warehouse, but she falls
in love with a newly appointed worker and then marries him, which
gives glimpses of the struggle between her rigor personality and the
weakness resulted and affected by love, leading the character to
explore ecstasy, jealousy and revenge. In El-Batneyya, named after
another popular Egyptian area, she's starred beside prominent actors
including Farid Shawki, Ahmed Zaki and Farouk El Feshawi.Nadia El
Gendy has collaborated with director Nader Galal in nine movies
starting with Jabarowt Emraa (A Woman's Might) in 1984 and ending with
Amn Dawla in 1999, El Gendy appeared as an intelligent agent (or
double agent) in most of the works, or roles with significant femme
fatale characteristics, also many were low-budget. In A'sr El Quwwa
(Age of Power), played a different role she hasn't done before, as she
was an aspiring recently-graduated lawyer and daughter of a
billionaire who is involved along with his family in many crime and
illegal activities, the movie is significantly influenced by The
Godfather trilogy.
نادية الجندي‎) (born 1946 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian
actress and producer. She is often known in Egypt as "Negmet El
gamaheer" (the star of masses) because of the high commercial success
of her movies in the 1990s. Through her still on-going 6-decades
career, she has appeared in 61 movies and 7 TV shows. She is most
recognized for her femme fatale roles and spy movies related to
Egyptian-Israeli conflict and patriotic issues after 1952 revolution,
such as El Gasousa Hekmat Fahmy (1994), Mohemma Fi Tel Aviv (1992).
Also, she is known for various crime movies, ranging from vulgar drug
dealer in Egyptian suburbs to a professional thief.Started her work in
cinema after winning in a beauty contest in Cairo which gained her
debut 1958 in a small role in Youssef Chahine's historical movie about
the French Colonisim in North Africa, Gamila. In the sixties, she had
many various small roles. In early 1970s played the role of Zaghaga, a
local drug dealer, in TV soap opera al-Dawwama (The Whirlpool),
besides Mahmoud Yassin and then-young Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, the series
was very popular and was produced for theaters. In 1974 she earned
more recognition when she produced her own movie, Bamba Kashar, in
which she played the role of the real 20th belly dancer of the same
name, it was directed by Hassan El Imam as quite similar to his
typical melodrama characteristics, also contained many songs and
dances performed by El Gendy, the movies starred her then-husband,
Emad Hamdy, and notably despite the screening permits faced longtime
problems, it had had very wide success in theaters for many weeks.From
1980 to 1984, she starred in different commercially successful movies
and some of them were well-received by many critics, such as the role
of Neama't Allah in Wekalet El Balah, which is scripted by Nobel prize
laureate Naguib Mahfouz, which she appeared as a very strong boss in
old rural part in old Cairo and has her own warehouse, but she falls
in love with a newly appointed worker and then marries him, which
gives glimpses of the struggle between her rigor personality and the
weakness resulted and affected by love, leading the character to
explore ecstasy, jealousy and revenge. In El-Batneyya, named after
another popular Egyptian area, she's starred beside prominent actors
including Farid Shawki, Ahmed Zaki and Farouk El Feshawi.Nadia El
Gendy has collaborated with director Nader Galal in nine movies
starting with Jabarowt Emraa (A Woman's Might) in 1984 and ending with
Amn Dawla in 1999, El Gendy appeared as an intelligent agent (or
double agent) in most of the works, or roles with significant femme
fatale characteristics, also many were low-budget. In A'sr El Quwwa
(Age of Power), played a different role she hasn't done before, as she
was an aspiring recently-graduated lawyer and daughter of a
billionaire who is involved along with his family in many crime and
illegal activities, the movie is significantly influenced by The
Godfather trilogy.
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