Acting
Léonie Simaga
1977-11-30 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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.
Known for
Little Tickles
Alice and the Mayor
Guru
The Flame
Jeune Femme
All About Actresses
The Green Perfume
The Eddy
Save Our School
The Peace and Love Process
Mon pote
A Season in France
Trepalium
Machine
Murders in...
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Movie credits · 39
One Minute to Midnight
Lady Liberty: Secrets of an Icon
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Guru
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Respire
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
The Peace and Love Process
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
The Green Perfume
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
Save Our School
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Summer of revolution
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Meurtres à Albi
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
L'Orientalisme
Alice and the Mayor
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Little Tickles
A Season in France
Jeune Femme
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Closed Circuit
Just Love!
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Mon pote
All About Actresses
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
Ça va bien se passer
TV credits · 20
Uniformes
Apparences
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
Clean
37 secondes
The Intruder
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
Brocéliande
Machine
Le Négociateur
LT-21
Je te promets
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
The Flame
The Eddy
Les Impatientes
Trepalium
Les Limiers
Murders in...
La dernière veillée
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