Acting
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.
Filmography
One Minute to Midnight
Film · 2026
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Film · 2026
Guru
Film · 2026
Lady Liberty: Secrets of an Icon
Film · 2026
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
Film · 2026
Apparences
Series · 2026
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
Series · 2026
Uniformes
Series · 2026
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Film · 2025
37 secondes
Series · 2025
Clean
Series · 2025
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
Series · 2025
The Intruder
Series · 2025
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Film · 2024
Brocéliande
Series · 2024
Le Négociateur
Series · 2024
Machine
Series · 2024
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Film · 2023
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Film · 2023
The Peace and Love Process
Film · 2023
Respire
Film · 2023
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Film · 2023
LT-21
Series · 2023
Summer of revolution
Film · 2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Film · 2022
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Film · 2022
The Green Perfume
Film · 2022
Save Our School
Film · 2022
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Film · 2022
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
Film · 2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Film · 2022
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Film · 2021
Meurtres à Albi
Film · 2021
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Film · 2021
Je te promets
Series · 2021
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Film · 2020
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
Series · 2020
The Eddy
Series · 2020
The Flame
Series · 2020
L'Orientalisme
Film · 2019
Alice and the Mayor
Film · 2019
A Season in France
Film · 2018
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Film · 2018
Little Tickles
Film · 2018
Les Impatientes
Series · 2018
Jeune Femme
Film · 2017
Trepalium
Series · 2016
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Film · 2015
Just Love!
Film · 2013
Closed Circuit
Film · 2013
Murders in...
Series · 2013
Les Limiers
Series · 2013
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Film · 2012
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Film · 2012
Mon pote
Film · 2010
All About Actresses
Film · 2009
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
Film · 2006
Ça va bien se passer
Film
La dernière veillée
Series