Léonie Simaga
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1977 (age 48)
- Birthplace
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography
Léonie Simaga, born in 1978 in Marseille, is a French actress and director, member of the Comédie-Française from 2010 to 2015. Her father and mother met in Rennes during their studies. She, from Brittany, is preparing to teach French. He, from Mali, is an agricultural engineer. His Breton grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Le Gall, died during the liberation of Brest in 1944, was decorated with the Legion of Honor. After her baccalaureate obtained at the House of Education of the Legion of Honor, she entered hypokhâgne, then khâgne in Parisian high schools and then obtained her diploma from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris4 (class of 20025). She also holds a degree in history. She studied theater at the Asnières Studio-theater, then at the National Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Art from 2002 to 2005. She played at the Comédie-Française in Esther by Racine, then in 2004, in Papa must eat by Marie NDiaye . She was hired as a resident in 2005. She notably performed the role of the Infanta in Corneille's Le Cid during the 2005-2006 season, and in 2007 played the role of Chimène in the same play, alternating with the role of Lucietta in Goldoni's play Il campiello. She became a member of the Comédie-Française on January 1, 2010. Léonie Simaga also directs several productions for the Comédie-Française such as, in 2007, Pour un oui ou pour un non by Nathalie Sarraute and, in 2014, Othello by William Shakespeare. She left the Comédie-Française at the end of 2015.
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Filmography
Ça va bien se passer
Movie · as Amara Sacko
La dernière veillée
TV · as Imane · 4 eps
One Minute to Midnight
Movie · as Éléonore
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Movie · as Inès Tridot
Guru
Movie · as Karla Demaison
Lady Liberty: Secrets of an Icon
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
Movie · as Narrator (French voice over)
Apparences
TV · as Capitaine Sarah Santoni · 4 eps
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Uniformes
TV · as Maddie · 6 eps
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
37 secondes
TV · as Laurence Binet · 6 eps
Clean
TV · as Jess · 4 eps
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
TV · as Narratrice · 5 eps
The Intruder
TV · as Aline · 4 eps
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Movie · as Narratrice
Brocéliande
TV · as Pauline Diawara · 6 eps
Le Négociateur
TV · as Frédérique · 6 eps
Machine
TV · as Colonel Karras · 6 eps
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Peace and Love Process
Movie · as Aïssa
Respire
Movie · as Sofia
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Movie · as Léa
LT-21
TV · as Asia Dialo · 8 eps
Summer of revolution
Movie · as Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Movie · as Narrator
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Movie · as Narratrice
The Green Perfume
Movie · as Louise
Save Our School
Movie · as Ingrid
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Movie · as Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
Movie · as narrator
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Movie · as (Voix Off)
Meurtres à Albi
Movie · as Annabelle Dalmasio
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Movie · as Narration
Je te promets
TV · as Agnès Gallo · 32 eps
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Movie · as Narratrice (voix-off)
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
The Eddy
TV · as Commandant Keita · 8 eps
The Flame
TV · as Sarah · 9 eps
L'Orientalisme
Movie · as Narrator
Alice and the Mayor
Movie · as Isabelle Leinsdorf
A Season in France
Movie · as Martine
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Little Tickles
Movie · as Lola
Les Impatientes
TV · as Isabelle Maroni · 3 eps
Jeune Femme
Movie · as Yuki
Trepalium
TV · as Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia · 6 eps
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Movie · as Self
Just Love!
Movie · as Silvia
Closed Circuit
Movie · as Léa
Murders in...
TV · as Annabelle Dalmasio · 1 ep
Les Limiers
TV · as Sara Mauduit · 6 eps
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Movie · as Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Movie · as Silvia
Mon pote
Movie · as Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
All About Actresses
Movie · as La baby-sitter
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
Movie · as Lucinde / Léonie Simaga