Nelly was married to the Egyptian film director [1], and later on she got engaged to the musician Moody Elemam for a very short time.

Her fame grew larger in 1966, at age 17, with the first film in which she had the lead role, Mahmoud Zulfikar's "Al Murahiqa as Saghira".

[3] The majority of these are musicals, or films with a thread of plot and drama that is punctuated intermittently with song and dance.

[7] Nelly has largely retired from making films, comedy shows, and music, but she has been visible as a guest personality on a number of TV talk & entertainment programs.

She also served as a judge in 2006 in The X Factor, XSeer Al Najah TV singing talent search show.