Léonie Simaga

Known for ActingBorn 1977-11-30 (age 48)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.Read more

Movies & web series

L'Orientalisme

Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Apparences

French Soldiers of the Third Reich

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love

Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening

37 secondes

Clean

Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)

The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA

The Flame

Little Tickles

Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

Murders in...

The Intruder

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

Newark USA: Far from the American Dream

LT-21

Summer of revolution

Un chapeau de paille d'Italie

Le Négociateur

Je te promets

Machine

The Eddy

Just Love!

Alice and the Mayor

Guru

Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light

Brocéliande

Meurtres à Albi

Les Impatientes

Closed Circuit

Mon pote

All About Actresses

Jeune Femme

Les Secrets du Paquebot

Trepalium

Save Our School

A Season in France

The Green Perfume

Respire

The Peace and Love Process

Maisonneuve - A School of the World

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran

Les Justicières de Saint Flour

Uniformes