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