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Léonie Simaga
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 stu…
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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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2026
One Minute to Midnight
Movie Éléonore
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2026
Liberté, la statue qui voulait changer le monde
Movie Narrator (voice over)
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2026
Uniformes
TV show Maddie
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2026
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Movie Inès Tridot
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2026
Apparences
TV show Capitaine Sarah Santoni
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2026
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2026
Guru
Movie Karla Demaison
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2025
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2025
Clean
TV show Jess
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2025
37 secondes
TV show Laurence Binet
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2025
The Intruder
TV show Aline
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2025
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
TV show Narratrice
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2024
Brocéliande
TV show Pauline Diawara
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2024
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Movie Narratrice
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2024
Machine
TV show Colonel Karras
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2024
Le Négociateur
TV show Frédérique
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2023
LT-21
TV show Asia Dialo
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2023
Respire
Movie Sofia
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2023
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Movie Léa
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2023
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
The Peace and Love Process
Movie Aïssa
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2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2022
The Green Perfume
Movie Louise
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2022
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
Movie narrator
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2022
Save Our School
Movie Ingrid
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2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Summer of revolution
Movie Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
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2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Movie Narrator
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2022
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Movie Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
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2021
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Movie (Voix Off)
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2021
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Movie Narration
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2021
Je te promets
TV show Agnès Gallo
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2021
Meurtres à Albi
Movie Annabelle Dalmasio
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2020
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Flame
TV show Sarah
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2020
The Eddy
TV show Commandant Keita
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2020
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Movie Narratrice (voix-off)
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2019
L'Orientalisme
Movie Narrator
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2019
Alice and the Mayor
Movie Isabelle Leinsdorf
