Sanaa Gamil

Born: 1930-04-27

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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A Beginning and an Ending

as نفيسة
Released: 1960-10-31

A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their...

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The Lady on the Train

as Afaf
Released: 1952-08-28

Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train,...

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Ana Wi Habibi

as Fake Lover
Released: 1953-03-30

The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique...

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The Second Wife

as Hafiza حفيظة
Released: 1967-10-14

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village...

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في شرع مين

as uncredited
Released: 1953-10-15

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Dawn of a New Day

as Nayla
Released: 1964-02-10

The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to...

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The Cursed

as baheria
Released: 1979-01-01

Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.

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Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

as Sayed's Mother
Released: 1998-11-24

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of...

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Have Mercy

as uncredited
Released: 1953-10-29

Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They...

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The Basement

as uncredited
Released: 1987-05-28

The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get...

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Money slaves

as فتاة المنحلة بالكباريه
Released: 1953-04-19

Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with...

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The Great Clown

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-21

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband...

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The Impossible

as فاطمة
Released: 1966-01-02

Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides...

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Heart of Gold

as Awsaf
Released: 1959-02-02

One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is...

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Zeinab

as مسعودة
Released: 1952-05-01

adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel.

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The Lady's Driver

as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
Released: 1993-12-12

A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and...

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أحلام الربيع

as uncredited
Released: 1955-03-04

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Marret El-ayam

as uncredited
Released: 1954-01-14

Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing...

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Adam and Eve

as Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancée
Released: 1951-05-07

Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza,...

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زهرة الصبار

as الآنسة جيهان
Released: 1967-01-01

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I'll Never Cry

as Samiha
Released: 1957-02-25

The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public...

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Iidini eaqlak

as Bahiga
Released: 1952-12-22

After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful...

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Your Wisdom, God!

as uncredited
Released: 1976-12-13

A police officer love a girl but he doesn't know that the girl's mother is a drug dealer

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شريك حياتى

as سهير
Released: 1953-03-23

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توحيدة

as uncredited
Released: 1976-09-29

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الأم القاتلة

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-01

A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her...

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The Lady from Cairo

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-02

In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the...

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Al Shaytan wal Kharif

as uncredited
Released: 1972-08-14

Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so...

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Good News

as Noura نورا
Released: 1952-04-07

Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the...

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Nisaa Fi Hayaty

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-31

Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers...

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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool

as زوجة المرابي اليهودي
Released: 1953-06-09

In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin...

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Mr. K

as uncredited
Released: 1994-02-07

In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law...

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April Fool

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-08

Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former...

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The Unknown

as Om Nagy
Released: 1984-06-23

At an isolated Canadian area Madiha lives with her mother; they run a small motel after they...

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Back Streets

as uncredited
Released: 1974-08-19

Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry...

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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban

as uncredited
Released: 1986-11-03

The film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich...

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The Sky Devils

as Head Nurse
Released: 1956-04-02

Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful...

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Al-Shakk ya Habibi

as بهيجة
Released: 1979-01-01

Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy...

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Nahed

as Gamalat
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A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the...

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Ya Zalemni

as uncredited
Released: 1954-05-31

On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the...

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No Tears

as uncredited
Released: 1961-12-23

On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant....

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Aunt Safiya & the Monastery

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-03-24

Safiya loves Harby but marries his uncle Asran after she finds that he loves another. After the...

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The White Flag

as فضة المعداوي
First aired: 1988-04-18

According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria,...

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Saken Osady

as سلوى
First aired: 1995-01-31

An Egyptian social comedy series, the events of which take place in separate connected episodes...

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Eyes

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-07-13

Mukhtar Al-Iskandarani is a successful lawyer, but he suffers from sleepwalking. When his wife...

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اللعبة المجنونة

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-01-01

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An Escape Night

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-04-06

(Ahmed) returns from abroad after obtaining a doctorate in philosophy, disappointing his father,...

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قلوب فقدت الحب

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-01-07

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إصلاحية جبل الليمون

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-01-29

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الحب وسنينه

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-08-08

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