Today passes 92 years since the birthday of the great artist Sana Jameel, who was born on this day, corresponding to April 27, 1930, to be one of the giants of art and acting, and she gives her whole life to art and sacrifices for it what is difficult for others to sacrifice until her name was immortalized in the records of creators, and her works remained In the hearts of millions forever.
Sanaa Jamil, the genius artist with great talent and immortal roles, who presented the greatest and most important cinematic, theatrical and dramatic works, and for the sake of art, she suffered the most.
Sanaa Jamil, who excelled when she embodied the role of Nafisa, the girl of medium beauty in the movie “Bidaya Wa Nihaya” and “Hafeza”, the domineering wife in the movie The Second Wife – two of the 100 most important films in the history of Egyptian cinema, and Sanaa Jamil had more than one movie on this list.
Sana Jamil was able to be creative in embodying the roles of the aristocratic lady and dazzled everyone when she embodied the character of Fadda Al-Madawy in the series “The White Flag” until she surpassed the character written by Osama Anwar Okasha, who said regarding her, “What Sana gave the character of life and spirit exceeded all my expectations and perceptions as I weave her threads on paper, it gave it its own brilliance.”
Sana Jamil lived a life full of suffering and sacrifices, and she said regarding her suffering: “My difficult life full of thorns, my long patience and my ability to withstand difficult circumstances made me like a cactus flower in patience and endurance, and facing adversity and hardships.”
She is Soraya Youssef Atallah. She belongs to a Saedid family. She was born in Mallawi Center in Minya to a Coptic Christian family. She moved to Cairo before the Second World War to join the French boarding school, El Mer de Die, when she was 9 years old, and she remained there until high school. She loved art and wanted to join the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. Her family refused, and her brother slapped her, causing her to lose hearing in one ear, and her family expelled her following she adhered to her desire.
In an interview with her, Sana spoke regarding the suffering she experienced in tears, and indicated that she resorted to director Zaki Tulaimat, who helped her stay in a student house and included her in the “Modern Theater” troupe, and named her artistically Sana Jamil, and the daughter of the aristocratic family and a graduate of French schools worked from the proceeds of her work in detail until She might support herself and she slept on the tiles.
Sanaa Jamil participated in a number of cinematic and theatrical roles until she starred in the movie “The Beginning and the End” and was praised by critics and the audience. and others.
Happiness began to find its way to the cactus flower when she met her life companion Louis Grace in 1960, at a farewell party for a Sudanese journalist who had completed her training in Rosal Youssef, and she kept mistaking his name throughout the ceremony and calling him “Youssef”, and Louis was attached to her, but he thought that their marriage was impossible as he thought that she was a Muslim Because she said a lot, “and the Prophet”, and he thought regarding declaring his conversion to Islam to marry her, and then discovered that she was a Christian, so he proposed to her and they married with two bouquets whose price does not exceed 10 pounds. So he went to the newspaper (Rose El-Youssef), in which he was working, and rented 7 vehicles in which he gathered 35 of his colleagues to solve the crisis, and they spent their honeymoon moving between several governorates because Sana was associated with a number of theatrical performances.
Sana and Louis were a model of romantic love stories and the connection in which each party devotes itself to the entity of the other. Sana always swore by his name, saying, “The life of Louis.” Even Louis Grace did not use the stick to lean on it walking until following the death of Sana, who contracted lung cancer and continued to suffer for 3 months. Days before her burial, in the hope that a member of her family would appear, and Louis Grace waited for 3 days, but no one from the Sana family appeared. 2018 .
