Léonie Simaga
Acting
Born: November 30, 1977 (age 48) · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Highest Rated
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
Little Tickles
2018
Alice and the Mayor
2019
Guru
2026
The Flame
2020
Jeune Femme
2017
All About Actresses
2009
The Green Perfume
2022
The Eddy
2020
Save Our School
2022
The Peace and Love Process
2023
Mon pote
2010
A Season in France
2018
Photos (3)
Movies (31)
Guru
Karla Demaison
Jeune Femme
Yuki
Little Tickles
Lola
L'Orientalisme
Narrator
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
Lucinde / Léonie Simaga
The Peace and Love Process
Aïssa
Mon pote
Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
Alice and the Mayor
Isabelle Leinsdorf
All About Actresses
La baby-sitter
Closed Circuit
Léa
Respire
Sofia
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Narrator (voice)
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Narratrice (voix-off)
The Green Perfume
Louise
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Inès Tridot
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Silvia
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Narratrice
Just Love!
Silvia
Summer of revolution
Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
Meurtres à Albi
Annabelle Dalmasio
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
narrator
A Season in France
Martine
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Narrator (voice)
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Narratrice
Save Our School
Ingrid
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
(Voix Off)
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Léa
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Narrator
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Narration
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
TV Shows (18)
Murders in...
Annabelle Dalmasio · 1 eps
Le Négociateur
Frédérique · 6 eps
The Eddy
Commandant Keita · 8 eps
The Flame
Sarah · 9 eps
Brocéliande
Pauline Diawara · 6 eps
37 secondes
Laurence Binet · 6 eps
Machine
Colonel Karras · 6 eps
Je te promets
Agnès Gallo · 32 eps
Les Impatientes
Isabelle Maroni · 3 eps
The Intruder
Aline · 4 eps
Uniformes
Maddie · 6 eps
Apparences
Capitaine Sarah Santoni · 4 eps
Trepalium
Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia · 6 eps
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Clean
Jess · 4 eps
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
Narratrice · 5 eps
LT-21
Asia Dialo · 8 eps
Les Limiers
Sara Mauduit · 6 eps
Self / Appearances (5)
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Self - Narrator (voice)
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Self - Narrator (voice)
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self - Narrator (voice)
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Self
