Sanaa Gamil
Actor
- Born
- April 27, 1930 · Egypt
- Died
- December 22, 2002 (age 72)
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil.
One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie.
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Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise.
She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children.
She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
Known for
The Message
July 30, 1976
The Second Wife
October 14, 1967
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
November 24, 1998
The Beginning and the End
October 31, 1960
Lady of The Train
August 28, 1952
Have Mercy
October 29, 1953
The Lady's Driver
December 12, 1993
The Impossible
January 2, 1965
Dawn of a New Day
February 10, 1964
The Great Clown
April 21, 1952
Good News
April 7, 1952
Marret El-ayam
January 14, 1954
Acting57
- 1998Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better as Sayed's Mother
- 1994Mr. K
- 1993The Lady's Driver as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
- 1988What is wrong with the world as سنية
- 1987The Basement as أم الخير
- 1987Al-Kharteet as نرجس
- 1986Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
- 1986A solution that pleases all
- 1985When Evening Comes
- 1984The Unknown as Aleya "The Mother"
- 1979