Biographie

Directed by her husband Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, she appeared in "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, in "Les Caprices de Marianne" at the Baden-Baden Theater and in Purcell's opera Fairy Queen at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

From 1951 she appeared in leading and supporting roles in many German and Austrian films. Again and again she embodied the mysterious, exotic beauty.

In 1982 she directed her first television film "Abenteuer aus dem Englischen Garten", based on Marieluise Fleißer. As a television director, she made sophisticated literary adaptations. In 1982 she staged the German premiere of Catherine Hayes' "I will always long for you, my mother", at the Studiotheater in Munich and in Bern "Biografie" - a play by Max Frisch.

She was the daughter of a Lebanese linguist father and a German-language-teaching mother from Düsseldorf.

Saad appeared in an early 1966 episode of the American television espionage series Blue Light. It was edited together with three other episodes later in 1966 to create the American theatrical film I Deal in Danger, which includes her appearance.