This child was born on January 8, 1933 in Fayoum, to an Egyptian father who worked as an irrigation engineer and a Hungarian mother named Paula. They met while the father was traveling abroad.
From this wonderful mixture, she gained her beauty with Western features, and she was assigned the role of a fine girl in most of her roles in Egyptian cinema, which made marriage seekers and producers seek after her.
It is the actress Maryam Fakhr El-Din, who is considered the most important Egyptian actress, and she was prolific, and she relied throughout her life on what she earns from the returns of her films to support herself and later her son and daughter, even though she is married to 4 men.
She was famous for her charming features and beauty that combined the attractiveness of the East and the beauty of the West. Her roles varied in two stages of her life, between the romantic girl, and later she played complex roles, the most important of which is the role of the mother.
She stood next to the most important stars, from musician Farid al-Atrash to Nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez, Fahd Ballan and Ahmed Mazhar, and dealt with the most important Egyptian directors, and she was lucky at work and on the screen and unhappy behind her.
She has one brother, the Egyptian actor Youssef Fakhr El-Din, and she mastered 5 languages, including French, English, Hungarian and German, and learned them through her studies at her German school in Bab El-Louk, and obtained a certificate equivalent to the baccalaureate.
The most important voices in the Arab world sang with their beauty in their songs, and they are Abdel Halim Hafez with the song “Betlomoni Les”, from the movie “Hekayat Hob”, and Muharram Fouad with the song “Aware, My Heart” in the movie “Farewell, Love”, and Farid Al-Atrash with the song “Wahayat Ayyaki” from The movie “Maleesh Ghairak”.
She considered Abdel Halim Hafez a colleague and respected him, but they did not have any romantic relationship. As for the Egyptian actor, Rushdi Abaza, he asked her for marriage, but she did not agree to the great similarity between them, especially in the life of luxury.
Maryam Fakhr El-Din recounted an incident that happened with her, and she explained that Rushdi Abaza was one of her friends and once he surprised her with a visit at her home, bringing with him “kebabs” and “wski”,
She added, “Rushdie was looking for me to come home and open the door. It is worth noting that the artist Maryam Fakhr El-Din suffered at the end of her life from a coma, as a result of her severe fatigue, due to a stroke in the brain during Eid al-Adha.
She stayed in Maadi Military Hospital until she passed away on November 3, 2014, due to a heart attack. With his pistol,” she said, adding that the bullet was still in the door.