سناء جميل

Sanaa Gamil (Arabic: سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah (Arabic: ثريا يوسف عطالله) (April 27, 1930 – December 22, 2002), was an Egyptian actress. 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. She had four of her films voted for by critics and featured among "the 100 best ever made Egyptian films in the 20th century" list back in 1996. Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has al...