Sanaa Gamil
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Sanaa Gamil 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.
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.
... 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)
Egyptians
Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...
actress.
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan north to the area between El-Ayait and Zawyet Dahshur . The northern section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Sohag is sometimes known as Middle Egypt...
, she moved to Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
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
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.-Early life:...
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
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...
. 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.
Filmography
- Edhak el soura tetlaa helwa (1998)
- Dame du Caire, La (1992)
... aka The Woman from Cairo (International: English title: informal literal title)
- Hekmatak ya rab (1976) .... Om Naima
- Zawja al-thaniya, al- (1967) .... Wife
... aka The Second Wife
- Fagr Yom gedid (1964)
... aka Dawn of a New Day
- Bidaya wa nihaya (1960)
... aka Dead Among the Living
... aka The Beginning and the End
- Abid el mal (1953)
... aka Slaves of Money (International: English title)
- Ana bint min? (1953)
... aka Whose Daughter Am I? (International: English title)
Partial filmography
- Bidaya wa nihaya
- Edhak el Sora Tetlaa Helwa
- Sawaq El Hanem
- Hekmatak ya rab
- Elzouga Elthaneya
See also
- List of prominent Copts
- List of Egyptians
- Bidaya wa Nihaya (film)Bidaya wa Nihaya (film)Bidaya wa Nihaya is a 1960 Egyptian film based on the novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz....
- سناء جميل