
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

as فضة المعداوي

as سلوى
1995

as Sumayya
1976

as فضة المعداوي
1988

as Nefisah
1960

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1956

as Afaf
1952

as Samiha
1957

as Sayed's Mother
1998
as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
1993

as Sayed's Mother
1998

1994

as لطيفة هانم شوكت باشا
1993

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as Aleya "The Mother"
1984

as baheria
1979

as بهيجة
1979

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as أم توحيده
1976

as Sumayya
1976

1974

as نرجس
1972

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as Hafiza حفيظة
1967

as الآنسة جيهان
1967

as فاطمة
1965

as Nayla
1964

1961
16 ep.

as سلوى
46 episodes

as فضة المعداوي
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