Mervat Mostafa Amin[1] (Arabic: ميرفت مصطفى أمين; born November 24, 1946) is an Egyptian actress.
[2][3][4][5] She was born in El Minya to Mohammed Mostafa Amin, a doctor from Upper Egypt, and a Scottish mother, the headmistress of the Primary Section of the English School in Cairo (ESC).
She was raised in Heliopolis and has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Ain Shams University.
Amin's film debut in Egyptian cinema was in Nfus Ha'irah (1968) with Ahmed Mazhar (1917-2002), followed by her role with Salah Zulfikar (1926-1993) in Thalath Nesaa (1968) and her fame came when she took her first leading role, with Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977) in his last film, Abi foq al-Shagara (1969).
Noteably, she was briefly married to Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid, then to the renowned Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmy from 1974 to 1986 when the marriage ended in divorce.