- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1977
- Place of Birth
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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 mus…
Filmography
Un peu avant minuit
movieUn peu avant minuit
2026 · Éléonore
tvUniformes
2026 · Maddie
movieLes Justicières de Saint Flour
2026 · Inès Tridot
tvApparences
2026 · Capitaine Sarah Santoni
tvFrench Soldiers of the Third Reich
2026 · Narrator (voice)
movieGuru
2026 · Karla Demaison
movieMia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
tvClean
2025 · Jess
tv37 secondes
2025 · Laurence Binet
tvThe Intruder
2025 · Aline
tvAuschwitz, survivors tell their stories
2025 · Narratrice
tvBrocéliande
2024 · Pauline Diawara
movieMaïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
2024 · Narratrice
tvMachine
2024 · Colonel Karras
tvLe Négociateur
2024 · Frédérique
tvLT-21
2023 · Asia Dialo
movieRespire
2023 · Sofia
movieLes Secrets du Paquebot
2023 · Léa
movieNewark USA: Far from the American Dream
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieThe Peace and Love Process
2023 · Aïssa
movieKim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieThe Green Perfume
2022 · Louise
movieAvant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
2022 · Narratrice
movieEdvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
2022 · narrator
movieSave Our School
2022 · Ingrid
movieAlain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 · Narrator (voice)
movieSummer of revolution
2022 · Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
movieRestitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
2022 · Narrator
movieAlfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
2022 · Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
movieFrantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021 · (Voix Off)
movieJean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
2021 · Narration
tvJe te promets
2021 · Agnès Gallo
movieMeurtres à Albi
2021 · Annabelle Dalmasio
tvThe Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
2020 · Self - Narrator (voice)
tvThe Flame
2020 · Sarah
tvThe Eddy
2020 · Commandant Keita
movieMaisonneuve - A School of the World
2020 · Narratrice (voix-off)
movieL'Orientalisme
2019 · Narrator
movieAlice and the Mayor
2019 · Isabelle Leinsdorf
movieJosephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018 · Narrator (voice)
movieLittle Tickles
2018 · Lola
tvLes Impatientes
2018 · Isabelle Maroni
movieA Season in France
2018 · Martine
movieJeune Femme
2017 · Yuki
tvTrepalium
2016 · Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
movieDivine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015 · Self
movieClosed Circuit
2013 · Léa
tvLes Limiers
2013 · Sara Mauduit
movieJust Love!
2013 · Silvia
tvMurders in...
2013 · Annabelle Dalmasio
movieUn chapeau de paille d'Italie
2012 · Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
movieLe Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012 · Silvia
movieMon pote
2010 · Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
movieAll About Actresses
2009 · La baby-sitter
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movieÇa va bien se passer
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