17 Facts About Sanaa Gamil

Sanaa Gamil, born Soraya Youssef Atallah, was an Egyptian actress.

Sanaa Gamil is one of the most prominent artistic figures in the golden age of Egyptian film industry.

Sanaa Gamil was an orphan, thrown out by her elder brother from their home on a cold night for his refusal of allowing his sister to enter the movie business.

Sanaa Gamil endured much before entering the world of professional acting, but was exceptional and endowed with an individual style in performance, regardless of the nature of the characters she personified.

Sanaa Gamil moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career.

Sanaa Gamil worked in clothes tailoring, to pay her bills.

Sanaa Gamil used to sleep on the floor for the lack of any amenities where she lived at the time.

Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie.

Sanaa Gamil had four of her films voted for by Cairo International Film Festival critics and featured among "the 100 best ever made Egyptian films in the 20th century" list back in the centenary of the Egyptian Cinema, 1996.

Sanaa Gamil played a number of roles on the French Stage for the Comedie-Francaise.

Sanaa Gamil acted in a number of television series such as Ta'er EL Bahr opposite Salah Zulfikar in 1972 and Oyoun opposite Fouad el-Mohandes in 1980.

Sanaa Gamil received Order of Sciences and Arts from President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1969, and received another one from President Anwar Sadat in 1976.

Sanaa Gamil was married to the renowned Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss.

Sanaa Gamil met him in 1960, at a farewell party for a Sudanese journalist who had completed her training at Rose al-Yusuf.

Sanaa Gamil kept getting his name wrong throughout the party and calling him Youssef.

Sanaa Gamil was transferred to intensive care in an hospital in the Mohandessin district, suffering from complete heart muscle weakness, failure of the right lung function.

Sanaa Gamil died at the age of 72 on December 22,2002.