British police have begun an investigation into the death of Arab cinema's Cinderella, Suad Hosni, after she fell from a building in the Maida Vale district of London on Friday, Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper said, without speculating about whether she committed suicide.
AFP quoted the paper as saying that Hosni, 57, fell from the sixth floor of the building.
Earlier reports said that Suad died after ten years of suffering from a disease of the spinal column that left her paralyzed.
Suad, who started her career in 1959, was discovered by the director Henry Barakat. He last work was Al Ra’ee wal Nisa’a (The Shepherd and the Women) in 1991.
The celebrity gave up acting for health reasons in the mid-1980s after taking part in some 100 films over a quarter of a century. She was married to film director Ali Badrakhan and played memorable roles in several landmark movies of the 1960s by Egypt's cinema giants, the late Salah Abu Seif and 1997 Cannes festival prize winner Yussef Chahine – Albawaba.com
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