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