Fatma Turkan Shawkat (; 1930–2007), better known by her stage name Hala Shawkat (هالة شوكت), was a actress. She was one of the leading actresses of Syrian cinema in the mid-1950s and 1960s.
Life and career
Shawkat was born in
Daraa,
Syria, to a family of
Turkish people origin.
She gained her first film role in
Egypt where she acted alongside
Omar Sharif and
Samia Gamal in the 1959 film
Mao'ed Maa' Al Majhoul ("Date With The Unknown"). Shawkat also starred alongside other renowned Egyptian actors such as
Salah Zulfikar,
Mahmoud Yacine and
Nadia Lutfi, such as her role with Salah Zulfikar in the 1973 film Z
ekra Lailat Hubb ("Memory of a Night of Love"). Upon returning to Syrian, she worked with a number of Syrian directors and participated in several plays, including the famous play
Cheers Nation alongside
Duraid Lahham. In her later career she starred in numerous soap operas and radio programs.
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Shawkat died at the age of 77.[
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