Actor

Sanaa Gamil

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Movies: 53Series: 11Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 1302753

IMDb ID: nm0303943

Known for: Acting

Born: April 27, 1930

Died: December 22, 2002

Age: 72

Place of birth: Egypt

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2001

Years active: 51

Average TMDB rating: 8.57

Wikidata: Q4165415

Also known as

سناء جميل • Sanaa Jamil • ثريا يوسف عطا الله • Sanaa Gamil

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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

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