Sanaa Gamil

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1930-04-27

Deathday 2002-12-22 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Egypt

Also Known As سناء جميل, Sanaa Jamil, ثريا يوسف عطا الله, Sanaa Gamil

Sanaa Gamil

Biography

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. 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

Actor

Nahed

as Gamalat

1998
1995
Saken Osady

as سلوى

1994
1993
The Lady's Driver

as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا

1988
The White Flag

as فضة المعداوي

1984
The Unknown

as Om Nagy

1980
1979
The Cursed

as baheria

1979
Al-Shakk ya Habibi

as بهيجة

1967
The Second Wife

as Hafiza حفيظة

1967
زهرة الصبار

as الآنسة جيهان

1966
The Impossible

as فاطمة

1964
1959
Heart of Gold

as Awsaf

1957
I'll Never Cry

as Samiha

1956
The Sky Devils

as Head Nurse

1953
Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool

as زوجة المرابي اليهودي

1953
Money slaves

as فتاة المنحلة بالكباريه

1953
Ana Wi Habibi

as Fake Lover

1953
1952
Iidini eaqlak

as Bahiga

1952
Zeinab

as مسعودة

1952
Good News

as Noura نورا

1951
Adam and Eve

as Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancée

Creator

2001