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
Acting
Movie
The Message
as Sumayya
1976
Movie
The Second Wife
as Hafiza حفيظة
1967
Movie
The Beginning and the End
as Nefisah
1960
Movie
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
as Sayed's Mother
1998
Movie
Lady of The Train
as Afaf
1952
Movie
The Lady's Driver
as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
1993
Movie
Have Mercy
1953
Movie
The Impossible
as فاطمة
1965
Movie
Dawn of a New Day
as Nayla
1964
Movie
The Great Clown
1952
Movie
I'll Never Cry
as Samiha
1957
Movie
The Unknown
as Aleya "The Mother"
1984
Movie
Spring Fantasies
1955
Movie
Good News
as Noura نورا
1952
Movie
killer mother
1952
Movie
The Sky Devils
as Head Nurse - رئيسة الممرضات
1956
Movie
The Basement
1987
Movie
Adam and Eve
as Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancée
1951
Movie
Marret El-ayam
1954
Movie
April Fool
1954
Movie
Fi Sharaa Meen
1953
Movie
Zeinab
as مسعودة
1952
Movie
Your Wisdom, God!
1976
Movie
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
1957