Egypt: renowned actress Sanaa Jamil died at 70

Renowned Egyptian actress Sanaa Jamil died yesterday at 72 because of lung cancer. The genuine cinema and theatre star was admitted to al-Salam ( peace ) hospital on December 2nd after she felt great pain in her chest and it was found out that her right lung had cancer.

Actress Jamil was born in 1930. She received her education at French schools and had great difficulties upon joining the Drama Institute because she was not able to talk Arabic professionally. She started working in the cinema in 1951. Her real start with the cinema was in the film "a beginning and an end" built in a novel for Najib Mahfouz, and was produced by Salah Abu Seif, who also produced for her "The second wife " film costarred with the late Egyptian Star Souad Hosni.

She also starred the "Impossible" film by Hussein Kamal and "A new day dawn" by Youssef Shahin. Her last appearance in the cinema was three years ago in "Laugh to have a nice photo."