Aqeila Rateb

(1916 - 1999)

Aqeila Rateb was an Egyptian actress, born in 1916, graduated from the Tawfiq Coptic School, and became famous in her beginning with her beautiful voice, then she joined the band Ali Al-Kassar and Aziz Eid Al-Ghaniat Al-Dhna’iyya in Cairo in the thirties, to storm the field of cinema in the 1940s, to participate in many works, including (the three horsemen) Then her work continued until the late eighties and one of her most prominent works (Watch out for men, Mama, Cairo 30, some go to the authorized twice, the Zizi family), and she passed away in 1999.