Sanaa Gamil
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
The Beginning and the End
as NefisahSet in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family...
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Dawn of a New Day
as NaylaThe story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to...
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The Second Wife
as Hafiza حفيظةA story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village...
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The Lady's Driver
as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشاA Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and...
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The Basement
as uncreditedThe poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get...
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The Unknown
as Om NagyAt an isolated Canadian area Madiha lives with her mother; they run a small motel after they...
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The Impossible
as فاطمةHelmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides...
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Iidini eaqlak
as BahigaAfter Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful...
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The Great Clown
as uncreditedShehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband...
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killer mother
as uncreditedA married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her...
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I'll Never Cry
as SamihaThe family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public...
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Money slaves
as فتاة المنحلة بالكباريهWahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with...
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Maa Al Ayam
as uncreditedAfaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of...
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Nahed
as GamalatA girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the...
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No Tears
as uncreditedOn one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant....
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
as uncreditedAhmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers...
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Heart of Gold
as AwsafOne day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is...
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Ya Zalemni
as uncreditedOn a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the...
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The Lady on the Train
as AfafFikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train,...
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Al Shaytan wal Kharif
as uncreditedNaim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so...
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
as زوجة المرابي اليهوديIn a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin...
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Back Streets
as uncreditedSeveral models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry...
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Have Mercy
as uncreditedIsmail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They...
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Kedt Ahdem Baity
as uncreditedThe husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy...
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The Sky Devils
as Head NurseFarghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful...
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Ana Wi Habibi
as Fake LoverThe young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique...
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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
as uncreditedThe film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich...
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April Fool
as uncreditedIsmail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former...
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Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
as uncreditedAn orphan girl from a wealthy family, lives with her depressed, withdrawn father, and falls in...
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Fi Sharaa Meen
as uncreditedZakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money...
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Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
as Sayed's MotherPhotographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of...
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Isalu kalbi
as uncreditedA wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the...
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The Cursed
as baheriaEgyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
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Adam and Eve
as Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancéeTwo friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza,...
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Tawheeda
as uncreditedA love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation....
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Ahlan Ya Captin
as uncreditedRaafat works on one of the ships and meets with his ex-girlfriend Madiha, who refuses to marry...
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Your Wisdom, God!
as uncreditedIn the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated...
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Good News
as Noura نوراSanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the...
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Al-Shakk ya Habibi
as بهيجةDr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy...
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The Lady from Cairo
as uncreditedIn 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the...
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Marret El-ayam
as uncreditedInside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing...
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A solution that pleases all
as uncreditedIt talks about a wife who seeks to keep her deceased son of her husband away from home, so that...
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Mr. K
as uncreditedIn villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law...
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Al-Kharteet
as uncredited(Sultan) and his nephew (Adel) smuggle drugs. In one of the operations, the warehouse keeper...
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An Escape Night
as uncredited(Ahmed) returns from abroad after obtaining a doctorate in philosophy, disappointing his father,...
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Aunt Safiya & the Monastery
as uncreditedSafiya loves Harby but marries his uncle Asran after she finds that he loves another. After the...
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Saken Osady
as سلوىAn Egyptian social comedy series, the events of which take place in separate connected episodes...
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Eyes
as uncreditedMukhtar Al-Iskandarani is a successful lawyer, but he suffers from sleepwalking. When his wife...
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The White Flag
as فضة المعداويAccording to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria,...
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