Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama May 27, 1931 January 17, 2015 was an Egyptian film and television actress and producer.

Faten Hamama was born in 1931 to a Muslim family in Mansoura, Egypt , but she claimed to have been born in the Abdeen quarter of Cairo. Her father, Ahmed Hamama, worked as a clerk in the Egyptian Ministry of Education and her mother was a housewife. She has an older brother, Muneer, a younger sister, Layla and a younger brother, Mazhar. Her aspiration for acting arose at an early age. Hamama said that she was influenced by Assia Dagher as a child. When she was six years old, her father took her to the theater to see an Assia Dagher film when the audience clapped for Assia, she told her father she felt they were clapping for her.

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