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Sanaa Gamil
Egypt
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 Nefis…
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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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2001
البر الغربي
TV show Creator
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1998
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Movie Sayed's Mother
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1996
Aunt Safiya & the Monastery
TV show
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1995
Saken Osady
TV show سلوى
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1994
Mr. K
Movie
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1993
The Lady's Driver
Movie لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
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1991
اللعبة المجنونة
TV show
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1989
الحب وسنينه
TV show
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1989
An Escape Night
TV show
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1988
What is wrong with the world
Movie سنية
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1988
The White Flag
TV show فضة المعداوي
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1987
The Basement
Movie أم الخير
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1987
Al-Kharteet
Movie نرجس
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1986
Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
Movie
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1986
أزواج لكن غرباء
TV show
- 1986
More credits
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1985
When Evening Comes
Movie
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1984
The Unknown
Movie Aleya "The Mother"
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1980
Eyes
TV show
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1979
إصلاحية جبل الليمون
TV show
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1979
Doubt, My Love
Movie بهيجة
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1979
The Cursed
Movie بهيرة
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1978
Ahlan Ya Captin
Movie
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1977
قلوب فقدت الحب
TV show
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1976
Your Wisdom, God!
Movie
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1976
Tawheeda
Movie أم توحيده
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1976
The Message
Movie Sumayya
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1974
Back Streets
Movie
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1972
Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Movie نرجس
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1971
Some Live Twice
Movie
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1970
أشجان
TV show
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1969
زوجات وأزواج
Movie
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1968
الجاهزين قوي
TV show
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1967
The Second Wife
Movie Hafiza حفيظة
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1967
زهرة الصبار
Movie الآنسة جيهان
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1965
The Impossible
Movie فاطمة
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1964
Dawn of a New Day
Movie Nayla
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1961
No Tears
Movie
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1960
The Beginning and the End
Movie Nefisah
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1959
A Heart of Gold
Movie Awsaf
