Today, Friday, 8-1-2021, marks what would have been the 88th birthday of one of Egypt's most iconic actresses of all time, Mariam Fakhr Eddine.
Life and Career
Fakhr Eddine was born in 1933 in Fayoum to an Egyptian father and a Hungarian mother. They were keen on her getting an education, and indeed, she obtained a certification equivalent to the baccalaureate.
She had mastered 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Hungarian.
Fakhr Eddine's father was a Muslim, while her mother was a Christian. She lived a period of dual-religious, between Islam and Christianity, as the mother registered her in school under the name Mary Fakhry.
She studied Christianity for years and learned the traditions of the Christian religion, practiced its rituals, and performed her prayers until her father discovered this and went to school and told the teachers about her Muslim religion.
Fakhr Eddine did not know how to pray for a long period of her life. She sought Shadia to learn how to pray, who gave her a book entitled "The Little Muslim", but she did not understand anything from it.
She learned how to pray and say Tashahhud from Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy.
Fakhr Eddine, known for her role as Princess Ingie in the 1957 movie "Rod Qalby", entered the entertainment industry by mere chance. Her beauty was the main key to her entering the industry.
She went to be photographed at a famous studio at the age of 18. The photographer offered her to participate with her picture in the cover girl competition for a famous magazine. She won the competition and earned a large sum of money.
In 1951, Fakhr Eddine made her acting debut after director Ahmed Badrakhan saw her picture and nominated her to participate in the movie "Lelat Gharam".
She achieved great success in her first cinematic role and carried on in a path filled with many outstanding performances until she proved her talent and became a great star in the 1950s and 1960s.
Fakhr Eddine starred in about 300 films, among her most important and prominent works is "Rod Qalby", "Al Ard Al Tayeba", "Tayir Allayl Alhazin", and "Shefah La Ta'ref Al Kazb".
Personal life
The actress got married 4 times. She got married for the first time to director Mahmoud Zulfikar and separated from him after 8 years of marriage. They shared together a daughter called Eman Zulfikar.
Fakhr Eddine also tied the knot to Dr. Muhammad al-Tawil, Lebanese singer Fahd Ballan, and Sherif Fadali.
During the four times, she did not wear a wedding dress, and after an art-filled life, Fakhr Eddine departed from our world on February 3, 2014.
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