Sanaa Gamil
Sanaa Gamil (Arabic: سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah (April 27 1932 - December 22 2002), was an Egyptian actress.
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt, 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.[1]
She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Grace 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.[2]
Partial filmography
- Bidaya wa nihaya
- Elzouga Elthaneya
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References
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