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.
Fotos
Películas (39)
One Minute to Midnight
2026 · Éléonore
Lady Liberty: Secrets of an Icon
2026 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
2026 · Narrator (French voice over)
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
2026 · Inès Tridot
Guru
2026 · Karla Demaison
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
2024 · Narratrice
Respire
2023 · Sofia
Les Secrets du Paquebot
2023 · Léa
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Peace and Love Process
2023 · Aïssa
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Green Perfume
2022 · Louise
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
2022 · Narratrice
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
2022 · narrator
Save Our School
2022 · Ingrid
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Summer of revolution
2022 · Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
2022 · Narrator
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
2022 · Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021 · (Voix Off)
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
2021 · Narration
Meurtres à Albi
2021 · Annabelle Dalmasio
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
2020 · Narratrice (voix-off)
L'Orientalisme
2019 · Narrator
Alice and the Mayor
2019 · Isabelle Leinsdorf
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Little Tickles
2018 · Lola
A Season in France
2018 · Martine
Jeune Femme
2017 · Yuki
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015 · Self
Closed Circuit
2013 · Léa
Just Love!
2013 · Silvia
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
2012 · Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012 · Silvia
Mon pote
2010 · Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
All About Actresses
2009 · La baby-sitter
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
2006 · Lucinde / Léonie Simaga
Ça va bien se passer
· Amara Sacko
Series (20)
Uniformes
2026 · Maddie
Apparences
2026 · Capitaine Sarah Santoni
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
2026 · Narrator (voice)
Clean
2025 · Jess
37 secondes
2025 · Laurence Binet
The Intruder
2025 · Aline
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
2025 · Narratrice
Brocéliande
2024 · Pauline Diawara
Machine
2024 · Colonel Karras
Le Négociateur
2024 · Frédérique
LT-21
2023 · Asia Dialo
Je te promets
2021 · Agnès Gallo
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
2020 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Flame
2020 · Sarah
The Eddy
2020 · Commandant Keita
Les Impatientes
2018 · Isabelle Maroni
Trepalium
2016 · Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
Les Limiers
2013 · Sara Mauduit
Murders in...
2013 · Annabelle Dalmasio
La dernière veillée
· Imane