Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 30, 1977
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Credits
55 titles
Léonie Simaga
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.
Known For
Filmography
Un peu avant minuit
Éléonore
Uniformes
Maddie
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Inès Tridot
Apparences
Capitaine Sarah Santoni
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
Narrator (voice)
Guru
Karla Demaison
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Self - Narrator (voice)
Clean
Jess
37 secondes
Laurence Binet
The Intruder
Aline
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
Narratrice
Brocéliande
Pauline Diawara
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Narratrice
Machine
Colonel Karras
Le Négociateur
Frédérique
LT-21
Asia Dialo
Respire
Sofia
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Léa
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Peace and Love Process
Aïssa
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Green Perfume
Louise
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Narratrice
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
narrator
Save Our School
Ingrid
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Narrator (voice)
Summer of revolution
Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Narrator
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
(Voix Off)
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Narration
Je te promets
Agnès Gallo
Meurtres à Albi
Annabelle Dalmasio
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Flame
Sarah
The Eddy
Commandant Keita
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Narratrice (voix-off)
L'Orientalisme
Narrator
Alice and the Mayor
Isabelle Leinsdorf
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Narrator (voice)
Little Tickles
Lola
Les Impatientes
Isabelle Maroni
A Season in France
Martine
Jeune Femme
Yuki
Trepalium
Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Self
Closed Circuit
Léa
Les Limiers
Sara Mauduit
Just Love!
Silvia
Murders in...
Annabelle Dalmasio