Sanaa Gamil

Sanaa Gamil was born Thoraya Youssef Atallah, April 27, 1930 – December 22, 2002, was an Coptic actress.

Born to a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria 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.