Sanaa Gamil

Sanaa Gamil

Born: April 27, 1930
Died: December 22, 2002
in 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 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 for Sanaa Gamil...

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Title: Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Character: Sayed's Mother
Released: November 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman
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Title: Aunt Safiya & the Monastery
Released: March 24, 1996
Type: TV
Safiya loves Harby but marries his uncle Asran after she finds that he loves another. After the mayor plots against Harby and Asran, he kills Asran and Harby is arrested. Safiya decides to raise her son Hassan to take revenge for his father and kill Harby after his release from prison.
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Title: Saken Osady
Character: سلوى
Released: January 31, 1995
Type: TV
An Egyptian social comedy series, the events of which take place in separate connected episodes between the families of (Kamal Al-Hamrawi) and (Sayed Al-Akhdar) adjacent to the residence in the same building, and in each episode there is a new comic situation between them that puts the members of the two families in funny situations.
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Mr. K
Title: Mr. K
Released: February 7, 1994
Type: Movie
In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business manager Qadri and her secretary Laila. Kismat has a spoiled dog that everyone is forced to serve and they all compete to do it.
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The Lady's Driver
Title: The Lady's Driver
Character: لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter suffering from her domination and control. When she got a new driver to work with, all the family members will have different life.
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The Lady from Cairo
Title: The Lady from Cairo
Released: January 2, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the world’s largest commercial film industries. The film that resulted from his Cairo sojuourn is a complex, painterly critique of the Egyptian musical and cinema star system. At the same time, the film shows the divergent states of possibility or despair faced by men and women within a changing Egyptian society. Smihi’s film plays out over thirty years and the events of the Nasserite years and the Palestine / Israel conflict become integral to the narrative. By blending newsreel footage with his own lush cinematography, Smihi creates a complex portrait of contemporary Egyptian society in the post-war years.
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Title: اللعبة المجنونة
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: الحب وسنينه
Released: August 8, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: An escape night
Released: April 6, 1989
Type: TV
(Ahmed) returns from abroad after obtaining a doctorate in philosophy, disappointing his father, who wanted him to study business administration to take over the management of the institution he owns, and marries Noura and his cousin Najwa, and is accused of killing the latter, so he escapes to Egypt and falls prey to a drug gang.
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Title: The White Flag
Character: فضة المعداوي
Released: April 18, 1988
Type: TV
According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria, (Silver Maadawi), a wealthy and authoritarian merchant in the fish ring, and retired Ambassador Moufid Abu Al Ghar, where Silver Maadawi tries with all its influence to seize the archaeological palace owned by Dr. Moufid and reside In him after his retirement.
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The Basement
Title: The Basement
Released: May 28, 1987
Type: Movie
The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her and Youssef is determined to kill him.
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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
Title: Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
Released: November 3, 1986
Type: Movie
The film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich marriage, while "Laila", who is assisted by her father and a great lawyer in his research, is impressed by Youssef, who owns a film company, decides to work with him.
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Title: أزواج لكن غرباء
Released: May 9, 1986
Type: TV
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Om Nagy
Released: June 23, 1984
Type: Movie
At an isolated Canadian area Madiha lives with her mother; they run a small motel after they immigrated from Egypt when the mother got divorced. Madiha doesn't know that she has a brother in Cairo named Nagi, And she hate the way they make their living by sedating the few customers who arrive to the motel, steal their money and using their deaf/mute servant to get ride of the bodies in the near by lake. Nagi arrives to Canada after his father dies trying to locate his mother and sister, he arrives to the motel and checks in hiding his personality trying yo get to know his mother first and understand why his father didn't want him to have anything to do with her..
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Title: Eyes
Released: July 13, 1980
Type: TV
Mukhtar Al-Iskandarani is a successful lawyer, but he suffers from sleepwalking. When his wife finds in one of his pockets a photo of a woman who was murdered in a mysterious crime, suspicions revolve around him. Heriam, his daughter's fiance, takes him to a psychiatrist to treat him.
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Title: إصلاحية جبل الليمون
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: TV
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The Cursed
Title: The Cursed
Character: baheria
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
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Al-Shakk ya Habibi
Title: Al-Shakk ya Habibi
Character: Baheega
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.
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Title: قلوب فقدت الحب
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: TV
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توحيدة
Title: توحيدة
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
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Back Streets
Title: Back Streets
Released: August 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.
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Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Title: Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Released: August 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he makes an agreement with Dalal in order to plan to seize Narcissus’s money. Her money to him, but he discovers it's not easy at all.
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The Second Wife
Title: The Second Wife
Character: Hafiza
Released: October 14, 1967
Type: Movie
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
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The Impossible
Title: The Impossible
Released: January 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
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Dawn of a New Day
Title: Dawn of a New Day
Character: Nayla
Released: February 10, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
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A Beginning and an Ending
Title: A Beginning and an Ending
Character: Nafisa
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: Movie
A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s death. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
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I'll Never Cry
Title: I'll Never Cry
Character: Samiha
Released: February 25, 1957
Type: Movie
The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public auction. This pasha has a daughter who falls in love with an agricultural engineer, and one of her relatives is trying to marry her in the greed of her father's money.
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Title: Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.
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The Sky Devils
Title: The Sky Devils
Character: Head Nurse
Released: April 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war. Orders are issued to paratroopers to land in land seized by the Zionists, and in the plane we learn that every pilot has a story.
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أحلام الربيع
Title: أحلام الربيع
Released: March 4, 1955
Type: Movie
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April Fool
Title: April Fool
Released: August 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ismail does not realize that this little lie has left him in an endless series of lies, Of each lie with a greater lie, and every time the wife deals with him in good faith.
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Ya Zalemni
Title: Ya Zalemni
Released: May 31, 1954
Type: Movie
On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
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Marret El-ayam
Title: Marret El-ayam
Released: January 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes to the sister, which shocks the student. She decides to conceal her feelings and continue studying. The professor marries the sister, and days pass without the flame of love being extinguished. A husband discovers... The sister realizes the student's feelings for him, and he begins to reciprocate the same feelings due to her intense interest in him, and the two almost drift into a stream full of mistakes.
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Have Mercy
Title: Have Mercy
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They are watched by a man who claims to be an archaeologist, but it turns out that he has a devilish plot that will get Ismail in big trouble.
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في شرع مين
Title: في شرع مين
Released: October 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
Title: Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
Character: زوجة المرابي اليهودي
Released: June 9, 1953
Type: Movie
In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who suffered a difficult life and great torment until the emergence of Islam and the most famous of his Islam at the hands of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
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Money slaves
Title: Money slaves
Character: فتاة المنحلة بالكباريه
Released: April 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going to jail, he asks Wahid to watch over his wife, and he leaves his money with him. But Wahid betrays his trust, he spends his money and cheats with his wife.
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Ana Wi Habibi
Title: Ana Wi Habibi
Character: Fake Lover
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find his way. These difficulties disappear when he falls in love with a famous (Shadia) singer who exchanges feelings of love, and attaches him with her to work in the club where she sings. The nightclub manager interferes to spoil this relationship because he covets marrying her, and her aunt also opposes their relationship. The events follow and the two lovers are exposed to many pressures in order to maintain their love.
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شريك حياتى
Title: شريك حياتى
Character: سهير
Released: March 23, 1953
Type: Movie
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Iidini eaqlak
Title: Iidini eaqlak
Character: Bahiga
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so they decide to travel to Cairo in order to search for Cairene girls for marriage, but they fall into a series of strange paradoxes, including falling into the hands of a professional fraudster. They worked in a doctor's house as servants.
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The Lady on the Train
Title: The Lady on the Train
Character: Afaf
Released: August 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.
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The Great Clown
Title: The Great Clown
Released: April 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Noura
Released: April 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the sons of the high class of her father's friends, and her father welcomes this, but she refuses to marry because she loves Hussein Her father, Khateeb, discovers that Soso is in agreement with the director of the company to rhythm between them, and one of the dancers is called to pretend that she is the wife of the engineer and the events and surprises follow.
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الأم القاتلة
Title: الأم القاتلة
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
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Adam and Eve
Title: Adam and Eve
Character: Magdy Siddiq Sami's fiancée
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters differ after marriage, and each of them tries to find happiness.