Zubaida Tharwat
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| Native name | زبيدة ثروت |
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Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat 14 June 1940 Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Died | 13 December 2016 (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1956–1987 |
Zubaida Tharwat (14 June 1940 – 13 December 2016) (Arabic: زبيدة ثروت Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [zebeːda sarwat]) was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress who was known for "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema".
Zubaida was born in Alexandria in 1940. Her father, Ahmed Tharwat, was a Navy officer. As a teenager she won a beauty contest in an Egyptian teen magazine which widely published her photograph and got her the attention of directors and producers. She studied at the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University. She made her brief first appearance in the 1956 film Dalila alongside stars of the day Shadia and Abdel Halim Hafez. She went on to work in many other films with other famous actors such as Rushdy Abaza, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Youssef Wahbi, Kamal el-Shennawi, Soad Hosny and Omar Sharif. She retired from acting in the late 1980s. During her career, she was given many nicknames such as The Pussycat of Arab Cinema, Magic Eyes and The Queen of Romance.
Tharwat married five times and had four daughters with her second husband, Syrian producer Sobhy Farahat.
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