Sanaa Gamil

Sanaa Gamil

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

  • Title: Sanaa Gamil
  • Popularity: 3.583
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-04-27
  • Place of Birth: Egypt
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  • Also Known As: سناء جميل, Sanaa Jamil, ثريا يوسف عطا الله, Sanaa Gamil
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Sanaa Gamil Movies

  • 1964
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    Dawn of a New Day

    Dawn of a New Day

    7 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    The Great Clown

    The Great Clown

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Mr. K

    Mr. K

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    أحلام الربيع

    أحلام الربيع

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1952
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    Good News

    Good News

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    The Cursed

    The Cursed

    1 1979 HD

    Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.

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  • 1967
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    The Second Wife

    The Second Wife

    6.9 1967 HD

    A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

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  • 1966
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    The Impossible

    The Impossible

    6 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    The Lady on the Train

    The Lady on the Train

    5 1952 HD

    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....

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  • 1952
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    الأم القاتلة

    الأم القاتلة

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    The Sky Devils

    The Sky Devils

    1 1956 HD

    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....

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  • 1987
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    The Basement

    The Basement

    6 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Iidini eaqlak

    Iidini eaqlak

    1 1952 HD

    After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so...

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  • 1951
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    Adam and Eve

    Adam and Eve

    1 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Marret El-ayam

    Marret El-ayam

    1 1954 HD

    Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes...

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  • 1992
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    The Lady from Cairo

    The Lady from Cairo

    1 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    April Fool

    April Fool

    7 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Fi Sharaa Meen

    Fi Sharaa Meen

    1 1953 HD

    Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to...

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  • 1953
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    شريك حياتى

    شريك حياتى

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1952
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    Zeinab

    Zeinab

    1 1952 HD

    adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel.

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  • 1976
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    Your Wisdom, God!

    Your Wisdom, God!

    6 1976 HD

    In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who...

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  • 1960
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    The Beginning and the End

    The Beginning and the End

    8 1960 HD

    Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death...

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  • 1998
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    Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

    Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

    6.8 1998 HD

    Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes...

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  • 1993
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    The Lady's Driver

    The Lady's Driver

    5.3 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Have Mercy

    Have Mercy

    6.2 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Nessa Khalf Al Qodban

    Nessa Khalf Al Qodban

    1 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    I'll Never Cry

    I'll Never Cry

    1 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Nisaa Fi Hayaty

    Nisaa Fi Hayaty

    1 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Al Shaytan wal Kharif

    Al Shaytan wal Kharif

    1 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Money slaves

    Money slaves

    1 1953 HD

    Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going...

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  • 1984
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    6.5 1984 HD

    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....

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  • 1979
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    Al-Shakk ya Habibi

    Al-Shakk ya Habibi

    1 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Ana Wi Habibi

    Ana Wi Habibi

    1 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Tawheeda

    Tawheeda

    1 1976 HD

    A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawhida becomes pregnant and is forced to marry a...

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  • 1954
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    Ya Zalemni

    Ya Zalemni

    1 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Back Streets

    Back Streets

    1 1974 HD

    Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student...

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  • 1953
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    Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool

    Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool

    7 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    زهرة الصبار

    زهرة الصبار

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1961
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    No Tears

    No Tears

    1 1961 HD

    On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Admiration grows between them, and love grows, but...

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  • 1970
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    Nahed

    Nahed

    1 1970 HD

    A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they...

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  • 1959
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    Heart of Gold

    Heart of Gold

    1 1959 HD

    One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After...

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  • 1989
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    الحب وسنينه

    الحب وسنينه

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1977
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    قلوب فقدت الحب

    قلوب فقدت الحب

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1979
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    إصلاحية جبل الليمون

    إصلاحية جبل الليمون

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1996
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    Aunt Safiya & the Monastery

    Aunt Safiya & the Monastery

    1 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    An Escape Night

    An Escape Night

    1 1989 HD

    (Ahmed) returns from abroad after obtaining a doctorate in philosophy, disappointing his father, who wanted him to study business administration to...

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  • 1991
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    اللعبة المجنونة

    اللعبة المجنونة

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1988
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    The White Flag

    The White Flag

    1 1988 HD

    According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria, (Silver Maadawi), a wealthy and authoritarian merchant...

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  • 1995
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    Saken Osady

    Saken Osady

    1 1995 HD

    An Egyptian social comedy series, the events of which take place in separate connected episodes between the families of (Kamal Al-Hamrawi) and (Sayed...

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  • 1980
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    Eyes

    Eyes

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    أزواج لكن غرباء

    أزواج لكن غرباء

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1970
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    أزواج لكن غرباء

    أزواج لكن غرباء

    1 1970 HD

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