
Léonie Simaga
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.
Acting (32 movies)

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021

Summer of revolution
2022

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023

Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
2022

All About Actresses
2009

Mon pote
2010

Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
2022

The Green Perfume
2022

Save Our School
2022

Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
2023

The Peace and Love Process
2023

Respire
2023

Meurtres à Albi
2021

Just Love!
2013

L'Orientalisme
2019

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
2022

Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
2022

Les Secrets du Paquebot
2023

Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
2012

Jeune Femme
2017

A Season in France
2018

Alice and the Mayor
2019

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018

Closed Circuit
2013

Little Tickles
2018

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015

Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022

Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
2021

Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
2024

Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025

Maisonneuve - A School of the World
2020
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