Shams El-Barudy
Oct 4, 1945 - Egypt
Egyptian actress of Syrian origins, born in 1945, she studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts for only two and a half years, then began her artistic career in the early sixties, and at that time she was still using her real name (Shams al-Muluk), but soon she changed her nickname To be (Shams Al-Baroudi) after her family name.
After that, she had many roles in the cinema, which made her an icon of temptation in the history of Egyptian cinema, and among the films in which she participated: (The Malatilian Bath, Pleasure and Agony, El Amusement Street)
Shams Al-Baroudi has also been a mainstay in the films directed by her husband, actor Hassan Youssef, including (Cowardly and Love, Fat Cats, Two On the Road).
Shams Al-Baroudi decided in the mid-eighties to retire and wear the hijab after the trip that she made with her father to perform the Umrah rituals, and she disavowed all the works that she participated in.
