Olwiya Gamil
Acting • Born 1910-12-15 – Died 1994-08-16
Biography
An actress who worked in theater and cinema, her real name is Elisabeth Khalil Majdalani. She came to Egypt from Lebanon. She worked in theater where she joined Ramses Naguib's troupe with Youssef Wahbi and remained in the troupe for many years, then joined the National Troupe. She worked in the plays Tosca, Divorce, The Count of Monte Cristo, Homeland, Rasputin, The Honorable Representative, and Polluted Blood. She was famous for her role as a strong-willed woman and a cruel mother-in-law in the films she worked in. She was married to the great artist Mahmoud Al-Meligy from 1939 until his death in 1983. Before that, she had married when she was thirteen years old and gave birth to her only daughter, Isis. She retired from acting in 1967 and passed away in 1994.
Filmography
43 credits
In Your Hands
Movie • 1960
Women Without Men
Movie • 1953
Prisoner of the Night
Movie • 1963
Casino el latafa
Movie • 1945
The Suspect
Movie • 1957
fekry's mother
دلوني يا ناس
Movie • 1954
الأم - رقية مصطفى حشمت
El Mazaher
Movie • 1945
Berlanty
Movie • 1944
Munira Hanem Shafi'i - منيرة هانم شافعي
Nahnu Bashar
Movie • 1955
Maa Al Ayam
Movie • 1958
نهاية حب
Movie • 1957
Qadam Al Kheir
Movie • 1952
Abu Ahmad
Movie • 1960
Executioner's sword
Movie • 1944
Wahida
Movie • 1944
Al-Sharaff Ghali
Movie • 1951
Sageen Abu Za'abal
Movie • 1957
Hasan's mom
The Cursed Palace
Movie • 1962
Najiya
The Unknown Beloved
Movie • 1955
Laila's mother
Leila Raheeba
Movie • 1957
أمينة
The Student
Movie • 1961
أم حسن
God Is on Our Side
Movie • 1955
Zeinab
Movie • 1930
Zohrah
Movie • 1947
Happy Day
Movie • 1940
A wife from Paris
Movie • 1964
والدة سامية
Tarek Al Amal
Movie • 1957
ام حسين
El naas makamat
Movie • 1954
Hamid's wife
killer mother
Movie • 1952
نعمت
No Understanding
Movie • 1961
Ismet Hanem عصمت هانم
Chabab El Yom
Movie • 1958
Umm Fathia
Nahed
Movie
Dawlat Hanem - Nahed's mother
Layla, Daughter of the Rich
Movie • 1946
Munira Hanem
Treachery and torment
Movie • 1947
The Mind is on a Vacation
Movie • 1947
Miracle from heaven
Movie • 1956
ام سلوى
Children of the poor
Movie • 1942
عزيزة هانم - والدة زكى
Ibn Al-Haddad
Movie • 1944
جلبهار هانم
The Victory of Youth
Movie • 1941
ام محي
الغائبة
Movie • 1955
The white angel
Movie • 1946
The First Love
Movie • 1945
The Black Cat
TV • 1964
Amina