Olwiya Gamil
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.
In Your Hands
Women Without Men
Prisoner of the Night
Casino el latafa
The Suspect
(fekry's mother)
دلوني يا ناس
(الأم - رقية مصطفى حشمت)
El Mazaher
Berlanty
(Munira Hanem Shafi'i - منيرة هانم شافعي)
Nahnu Bashar
Maa Al Ayam
نهاية حب
Qadam Al Kheir
Abu Ahmad
Executioner's sword
Wahida
Al-Sharaff Ghali
Sageen Abu Za'abal
(Hasan's mom)
The Cursed Palace
(Najiya)
The Unknown Beloved
(Laila's mother)
Leila Raheeba
(أمينة)
The Student
(أم حسن)
God Is on Our Side
Zeinab
Zohrah
Happy Day
A wife from Paris
(والدة سامية)
Tarek Al Amal
(ام حسين)
El naas makamat
(Hamid's wife)
killer mother
(نعمت)
No Understanding
(Ismet Hanem عصمت هانم)
Chabab El Yom
(Umm Fathia)
Nahed
(Dawlat Hanem - Nahed's mother)
Layla, Daughter of the Rich
(Munira Hanem)
Treachery and torment
The Mind is on a Vacation
Miracle from heaven
(ام سلوى)
Children of the poor
(عزيزة هانم - والدة زكى)
Ibn Al-Haddad
(جلبهار هانم)
The Victory of Youth
(ام محي)
الغائبة
The white angel
The Black Cat
(Amina)