Trivia

Her favorite hobby is raising pets, especially cats.

She raised her X-husband's two daughters, and adopted an orphan girl too to raise.

Taught herself to read and write before entering the entertainment industry.

Began her journey in the arts at a young age, overcoming personal hardships including the loss of her father and having limited formal education.

On 25 April 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, Hayat Al-Fahad publicly called for the deportation of expatriates from Kuwait on a local television channel. Her comments caused an uproar on social media, with various individuals criticizing her for her comments.

Al-Fahad began her artistic career in 1963, when he was part of the play Al-Dhahiyah, written by Saqr Al-Rashood, in which she participated alongside the artist Mansour Al-Mansour . She also made her television debut with the series Aila Bou Jassoum, which premiered in 1962.

Al-Fahad did not complete her primary education but later taught herself to read and write, becoming proficient in both Classical Arabic and English.

In the early 1950s, she developed an interest in the arts after watching a film starring the Egyptian singer and actor Farid al-Atrash. She subsequently began attending cinema screenings with her family, which became a regular pastime.

Between 1965 and 1968, she worked as an announcer at Radio Kuwait and co-hosted several programs with Amal Abdullah and Jassim Kamal.

During her career, she appeared in many television series and plays, both comedies and tragedies .

While working at Al-Sabah Hospital with her colleague Amina Al-Sharah, the Abu Jassoum series crew visited the hospital and asked them if they would like to work in the entertainment industry. Amina Al-Sharah replied that she wanted to be a broadcaster, and Al-Fahad said she wanted to be an actress. The Abu Jassoum crew asked if her family agreed and told her they would return to the hospital later to find out her answer. After that encounter, Hayat Al-Fahad explained her desire to act to her mother, but her mother refused to accept it and hit her. Some time later, the Abu Jassoum crew returned to the hospital and asked Al-Fahad if she had decided yet. She told them she hadn't and asked for a second chance. After two months of fighting for her dream, Al-Fahad began a hunger strike . At that time, Abu Jassoum's team, who worked with the army, met Al-Fahad's brother and tried to convince him to let his mother act.

She was raised as an orphan following the death of her father and experienced a difficult upbringing due to her mother's strict treatment.[.

For a period in his career, she formed a successful duo with actress Souad Abdullah. This collaboration resulted in works that left an artistic mark on the Gulf. These works included: Ruqaya and Sabika, World Peace, My Aunt Qamshah, Suleiman Al-Tayeb, and others. They ceased working together for a time, and their last collaboration after this hiatus was the Qatari series Eyal Al-Deeb in 2000.

She married for the first time in 1965, at the age of seventeen, to an Iraqi surgeon from Basra named Qusay Al-Chalabi. Al-Chalabi worked as an undersecretary in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information. She accompanied her husband to Cairo while he was studying medicine, and at his request, she stopped acting for three years, despite having agreed before their marriage that she would not give up the arts.

Hayat Al-Fahad was a Kuwaiti actress, broadcaster, writer and producer best known for her Kuwaiti plays and the pop culture TV shows Khalti Qumasha, Ruqiya wa Sabika, Jarh Al Zaman, 'ndama Tu'Gany Al Zuhor.