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Sanaa Gamil

Actor
Born April 27, 1930Died December 22, 2002 (72 years)
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

  • The Second Wife
  • Smile, the Photo Comes Out Better
  • Fagr Yom gedid
  • The White Flag
  • Alshak ya habibi

Filmography

1998
1995
Next Door (TV Series) · as Salwa
1993
Sawwaq el-Hanem · as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
1988
The White Flag (TV Series) · as فضة المعداوي
1984
The Unknown · as Om Nagy
1979
Alshak ya habibi · as بهيجة
1976
The Message · as Sumaiyah
1967
The Second Wife · as Hafiza حفيظة
1965
The Impossible · as فاطمة
1965
Fagr Yom gedid · as Nayla
1960
1957
I Shall Never Weep · as Samiha
1956
1953
1952
1952

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