Sanaa Gamil
Birthday: 1930-04-27
Place of Birth: Egypt
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
Movies
Dawn of a New Day
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to appro...
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The Great Clown
Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divor...
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Mr. K
In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kam...
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Spring Fantasies
A girl develops a psychological complex after witnessing her mother giving birth to her second child...
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Good News
Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the son...
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The Second Wife
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village wit...
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The Impossible
Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to b...
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Lady of The Train
Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she g...
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killer mother
A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window ar...
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The Sky Devils
Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operatio...
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The Basement
The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get ric...
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Iidini eaqlak
After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairen...
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Adam and Eve
Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in ...
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Marret El-ayam
Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. Th...
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April Fool
Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife wh...
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Fi Sharaa Meen
Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she ...
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Zeinab
An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...
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Your Wisdom, God!
In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl w...
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The Beginning and the End
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grap...
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Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine...
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The Lady's Driver
A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter su...
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Have Mercy
Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They are...
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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
The film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich marriage, wh...
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I'll Never Cry
The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public auc...
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, h...
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Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he ma...
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Money slaves
Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murde...
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The Unknown
At an isolated Canadian area Madiha lives with her mother; they run a small motel after they immigra...
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Doubt, My Love
Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahig...
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Ana Wi Habibi
The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, ...
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Tawheeda
A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawh...
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Ya Zalemni
On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teach...
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Back Streets
Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the ar...
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who su...
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No Tears
On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Adm...
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Nahed
A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relati...
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Heart of Gold
One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, ...
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Ahlan Ya Captin
Raafat works on one of the ships and meets with his ex-girlfriend Madiha, who refuses to marry him b...
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Kedt Ahdem Baity
The husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy creeps...
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Isalu kalbi
A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationshi...
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Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
An orphan girl from a wealthy family, lives with her depressed, withdrawn father, and falls in love ...
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Maa Al Ayam
Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom ...
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Al-Kharteet
(Sultan) and his nephew (Adel) smuggle drugs. In one of the operations, the warehouse keeper (Jaber)...
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A solution that pleases all
It talks about a wife who seeks to keep her deceased son of her husband away from home, so that she ...
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Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame' Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame'
Three people, each with a story: a police officer, a gangster and an undertaker. First, the police o...
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Some Live Twice
Ahmed, an archaeologist, and his wife Zahira, a school principal, get preoccupied with their careers...
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When Evening Comes
When a simple employee retires and lives with his wife who is different from him in character, and a...
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الميعاد
On the importance of integrity in life, Kamal, a poor engineer, is forced to work as a secretary, wh...
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