Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1930-04-27
Day of Death
2002-12-22
Place of Birth
Egypt
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
Filmography (53)
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
1998
Mr. K
1994
The Lady's Driver
1993
The Basement
1987
Al-Kharteet
1987
Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
1986
A solution that pleases all
1986
When Evening Comes
1985
The Unknown
1984
The Cursed
1979
Doubt, My Love
1979
Ahlan Ya Captin
1978
Your Wisdom, God!
1976
Tawheeda
1976
