Sanaa Shafea

Acting

Sanaa Shafea

Born 1943-01-25 · Egypt

An Egyptian actor, theater director and academic professor. He was born in Assiut in Upper Egypt, then to Cairo with his father, who was a scholar of Al-Azhar. He discovered his passion toward art and joined the amateur companies on Emad Eddin Street until he enrolled in the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts. He worked as a teacher and became the dean of the Institute, and worked on television, cinema and theater, where he directed the play Don Quixote in 1975. Some of his most important roles are in the film So That the Smoke Won't Dissipate, and the TV movie The Bourgeoisie Fawzia. He participated in several series, such as The Accused Is My Father, and Bab Al Khalq.

Acting credits

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie poster
7.5

The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

1985

Khair And Baraka poster
5.5

Two brothers who are looking for a job, find themselves in many comedic situations during their search journey and when they work in professions they know nothing about.

Khair And Baraka

2017

As Not to Fly the Smoke poster
7.7

Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.

As Not to Fly the Smoke

1984

Samara Al-Amir poster
NR

In the palace of a Pasha, the maid Shalabya and the driver Ali fall in love, but the Pasha fires them when he finds out. Shalabya starts working at a nightclub and grows famous. When she falls for Omar and decides to quit dancing for him, Ali tries to sabotage their relationship.

Samara Al-Amir

1992

Highly Dangerous Man poster
4.8

In prison, Sayed Kabaka meets two of his closest friends, Bader and Mustapha. After getting out, Mustapha finds out that his wife died without receiving the proper care promised by his partners, and that his daughter is placed in an orphanage. He teams up with Kabaka and Bader to take revenge on his partners for what they did.

Highly Dangerous Man

1991

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard poster
6.8

Kamel Abdel Shakoor is a general manager at one of the Ministry of Industry's companies and is known for his integrity. Fayed, the company's general manager of contracts, tries to convince him to get a commission, but he refuses despite his difficult financial circumstances.

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard

1985

When Evening Comes poster
NR

When a simple employee retires and lives with his wife who is different from him in character, and after his children get married, his wife is a controlling person who loves appearances, and he is a simple person who loves joking and modesty. His wife inherits a palace from one of her relatives, and events follow.

When Evening Comes

1985

Mirror in the palm poster
NR

An employee meets a fortune teller who tells him about things that will happen to him, and tells him that he will kill a person, so all the fortune teller prophecies are fulfilled, then the employee is afraid of killing someone that he starts doubting everyone around him.

Mirror in the palm

1981