Name Sanaa Gamil Ex-spouse Louis Greiss Movies The Beginning and the End | Parents Youssef Atallah Role Actress | |
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Full Name Thoraya Youssef Atallahثريا يوسف عطالله Born April 27, 1930 ( 1930-04-27 ) Upper Egypt, Egypt Similar People Salah Abu Seif, Gamil Ratib, Samiha Ayoub | ||
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Sanaa Gamil (Arabic: سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah (Arabic: ثريا يوسف عطالله) (April 27, 1930 – December 22, 2002), was an Egyptian actress.
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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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... aka The Woman from Cairo (International: English title: informal literal title)
... aka The Second Wife
... aka Dawn of a New Day
... aka Dead Among the Living ... aka The Beginning and the End
... aka Slaves of Money (International: English title)
... aka Whose Daughter Am I? (International: English title)