[1] She was born as Bahiga Abd El-Aal, but later adopted her new acting name, Huda Sultan, after many suggestions from prominent Egyptian Cinema producers that her birth name was too rural.

In 1968, she appeared in “Thalath Nesaa” (Egyptian Arabic: ثلاث نساء, “Three Women”) with Salah Zulfikar, Shoukry Sarhan and Ahmed Ramzy.

In 1986, Sultan starred in "Min Fadlik Wa Ihsanik" (Egyptian Arabic: من فضلك وإحسانك, "Please and Your Kindness") with Salah Zulfikar and Hesham Selim.

[5][6] Sultan married five times: her first husband, Mohamed Naguib, was a prominent Egyptian government official who did not agree to his wife's celebrity status and divorced her soon after her first movie.

Her granddaughter is actress Nahed El Sebai[1] In 2006 she died, at the age of 81 years, after a battle with lung cancer, at Dar Al Fouad in 6th of October, Egypt.