Personal Info
Birth date
1937-11-07 (87 Years)
Day of death
2022-08-09
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Egypt
Also known as
رجاء حسين
Raga Hussein
Ragaa Hussian
Ragaa Hussien
Ragaa Hussein
Biography
Egyptian actress. She first worked with the Naguib Rihani band, and then worked in film and television since the early 1960s, from her films (mouths and rabbits, Egyptian Hadwat, savages, sons and killers), and in television series (witness and tears, the journey of Mr. Abu El-Ela human, money and sons, Zizinia).
Filmography
Bernard Alba's Household
NYR
Overview:
an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.A Day for Women
6.7
Overview:
The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.The Sparrow
6.3
Overview:
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.I Want a Solution
NYR
Overview:
It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.Alexandria Again and Forever
4.7
Overview:
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.An Egyptian Story
6.3
Overview:
After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.Return of the Prodigal Son
6.3
Overview:
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.Money and Women
NYR
Overview:
Shehata is a committed employee in a private hospital. He lives with his daughter Nemat and his wife. One day Hussein proposes to his daughter, but the problem is that Shehata is unable to prepare his daughter, which prompts him to ask for an advance from the company. After management refuses, one of the bribed employees takes advantage of the opportunity and offers Shehata received a sum of money in exchange for a trust receipt, which he quickly used against him, especially after Shehata discovered that an incident of embezzlement had occurred.We share your joy
NYR
Overview:
Mukhtar is trying to complete his marriage to his fiancée Samia, but what has been standing in their way for 8 years is their inability to find a suitable apartment, in addition to his mother-in-law's constant harassment.The Savage
6
Overview:
Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.Little Dreams
NYR
Overview:
Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.Nawara
8
Overview:
Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.Mickey's Family
4.6
Overview:
A family participates in a competition to win the title of the “Ideal Family” as a solution to their problems.Back Streets
NYR
Overview:
Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.Sons and Killers
6.5
Overview:
When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.Look & Admire
3.5
Overview:
After having no job, Medhat goes to work in a hotel in Sinai and he helps his friend Majid to get a job there. When Majid saves the life of an American tourist, she gives him third of her wealth before she dies, provided that he implements the will for the benefit of Israeli authorities.Dilapidated Woman
NYR
Overview:
A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.The Safe Road
NYR
Overview:
The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?Affability
NYR
Overview:
Mahmoud and Nabila are married couple in their eighties, living alone in their peaceful house. Mahmoud unable to share his wife Nabila their daily life details. Nabila feels so lonely and looks for company.Vegetable Market
NYR
Overview:
Taking place in the vegetable and fruit market, the conflicts within are shown through the story of Sabah, who began her life as a small saleswoman who suffered from poverty and hunger, but she fought through injustice and deprivation until she became one of the top market merchants.Hekayat Beneeshha
NYR
Overview:
Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.Zezenia
6
Overview:
Alexandria, Egypt a cosmopolitan city during WW2, and Bishr a dandy bi-racial aristocrat is struggling with his schizoid sense of identity and allegiance.I Want to Get Married
8.1
Overview:
The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.Alseera AlAshouria: AlHarafeesh
NYR
Overview:
Based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz (The Harafish), the series presents the biography of the popular hero Ashour Al-Naji and his family, as he represents a symbol of principles, values, justice, mercy and fairness to the simple.Mouths and Rabbits
7.6
Overview:
A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.Acting
TBABernard Alba's Household as Martirio
TBAالضحك عالمكشوف as Unknown
2018Affability as Nabila
2017Sunset Oasis (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2016A Day for Women as Ahmed's Mother
2016Nawara as Unknown
2010Mickey's Family as أم مريم
2010I Want to Get Married (30 Episodes) as نحمده
2009Hekayat Beneeshha (15 Episodes) as تهاني
2006Vegetable Market (34 Episodes) as أم بدر
2005Rayya and Sakina (35 Episodes) as Unknown
2005ريا وسكينة (30 Episodes) as أمينة بنت منصور
2001الكومي (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001Look & Admire as Unknown
2000العصمة في ايد حماتي as وحيدة
1998Alseera AlAshouria: AlHarafeesh (18 Episodes) as Unknown
1997Zezenia (77 Episodes) as أم العربي
1993Little Dreams as Samah
1993Mountain Wolves (18 Episodes) as Unknown
1992Dilapidated Woman as Frayal
1992The Fortune and the Progeny (21 Episodes) as Unknown
1990The Serpent of Death as Jamilla (as Ragaa Hussien)
1989Alexandria Again and Forever as Unknown
1988We share your joy as Unknown
1987Sons and Killers as Enaam
1986Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey (15 Episodes) as Unknown
1985لا إله إلا الله (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1985Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr (30 Episodes) as زهرة
1983The Honey and The Tears (16, 20 Episode) as إحسان رضوان, إحسان
1982An Egyptian Story as Unknown
1979The Savage as Nossa
1978Dreams Of El Tayer Boy (14 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Mouths and Rabbits as Gamalat
1976Return of the Prodigal Son as Lawahez - Hassouna's wife
1975I Want a Solution as سنيّة
1974Back Streets as Unknown
1972The Sparrow as Zubaida
1967The Intruder as bahanh بهانه
1964الفرافير as Unknown
1964The Safe Road as إلهام - الزوجة الخائنة
1960Money and Women as عزة