| Claire Cooley |
Nemat Mokhtar is an Egyptian actress and dancer who was born in Alexandria in 1932. She became known for her dancing at a young age she was raised by artist Nabaweeya Saleem who was the head of a dance troupe. She began acting at the beginning of the 1950s when director Hussein Fawzi cast her in the film “Fata El Serk” (Daughter of the Circus). She acting and danced in more than 40 films, including: “Ismail Yassine Yoqabil Rayya Wa Sekina” (Ismail Yassine Meets Rayya and Sekina), “Bayn El Qasrayn” (Palace Walk), Zaqaq Midaq (Midaq Alley), “Tharthara Fawq El Nil” (Chitchat on the Nile), “Hamam El Malatily” (Malatily Bathhouse), “Alma’ra Alaty Ghalabat Al Shaytan” (The Woman Who Beat the Devil). She stopped acting in the mid 1970s to focus on her family life. She died in 1989 at the age of 57.
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