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Sanaa Gamil is a Actor Egyptienne born on 27 april 1930 at Upper Egypt (Egypte)
Sanaa Gamil (Arabic: سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah (Arabic: ثريا يوسف عطالله) (April 27, 1930 - December 22, 2002), was an Egyptian actress.
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt, 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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Birth name Thoraya Youssef Atallahثريا يوسف عطالله
Nationality Egypte
Birth 27 april 1930 at Upper Egypt (Egypte)
Death 22 december 2002 (at 72 years) at Cairo (Egypte)
Nationality Egypte
Birth 27 april 1930 at Upper Egypt (Egypte)
Death 22 december 2002 (at 72 years) at Cairo (Egypte)
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt, 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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The Impossible (1966)
Directed by Hussein Kamal
Genres Drama
Actors Nadia Lutfi, Kamal el-Shennawi, Salah Mansour, Sanaa Gamil
Rating67%
A Beginning and an Ending (1960)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama
Actors Omar Sharif, Sanaa Gamil, Amina Rizk, Salah Mansour, Farid Shawki
Roles Nafisa
Rating78%
The film portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family, who are three brothers, their sister Nefisah (Sanaa Gamil) and their mother (Amina Rizk), after the family's patriarch's death.