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
as Sayed's Mother
as سلوى
as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
as فضة المعداوي
as Om Nagy
as baheria
as بهيجة
as Hafiza حفيظة
as الآنسة جيهان
as فاطمة
as Nayla
as نفيسة
as Samiha
as Head Nurse
as زوجة المرابي اليهودي
as فتاة المنحلة بالكباريه
as Fake Lover
as سهير
as Bahiga
as Afaf
as Noura نورا
as مسعودة
as Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancée
Creator
as Creator