Acting · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France · Born November 30, 1977
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.
Un peu avant minuit
2026
as Éléonore
TVUniformes
2026
as Maddie
MovieLes Justicières de Saint Flour
2026
as Inès Tridot
TVApparences
2026
as Capitaine Sarah Santoni
TVFrench Soldiers of the Third Reich
2026
as Narrator (voice)
MovieGuru
2026
as Karla Demaison
MovieMia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVClean
2025
as Jess
TV37 secondes
2025
as Laurence Binet
TVThe Intruder
2025
as Aline
TVAuschwitz, survivors tell their stories
2025
as Narratrice
TVBrocéliande
2024
as Pauline Diawara
MovieMaïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
2024
as Narratrice
TVMachine
2024
as Colonel Karras
TVLe Négociateur
2024
as Frédérique
TVLT-21
2023
as Asia Dialo
MovieRespire
2023
as Sofia
MovieLes Secrets du Paquebot
2023
as Léa
MovieNewark USA: Far from the American Dream
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Peace and Love Process
2023
as Aïssa
MovieKim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Green Perfume
2022
as Louise
MovieAvant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
2022
as Narratrice
MovieEdvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
2022
as narrator
MovieSave Our School
2022
as Ingrid
MovieAlain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSummer of revolution
2022
as Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
MovieRestitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
2022
as Narrator
MovieAlfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
2022
as Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
MovieFrantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021
as (Voix Off)
MovieJean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
2021
as Narration
TVJe te promets
2021
as Agnès Gallo
MovieMeurtres à Albi
2021
as Annabelle Dalmasio
TVThe Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVThe Flame
2020
as Sarah
TVThe Eddy
2020
as Commandant Keita
MovieMaisonneuve - A School of the World
2020
as Narratrice (voix-off)
MovieL'Orientalisme
2019
as Narrator
MovieAlice and the Mayor
2019
as Isabelle Leinsdorf
MovieJosephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLittle Tickles
2018
as Lola
TVLes Impatientes
2018
as Isabelle Maroni
MovieA Season in France
2018
as Martine
MovieJeune Femme
2017
as Yuki
TVTrepalium
2016
as Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
MovieDivine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
as Self
MovieClosed Circuit
2013
as Léa
TVLes Limiers
2013
as Sara Mauduit
MovieJust Love!
2013
as Silvia
TVMurders in...
2013
as Annabelle Dalmasio
MovieUn chapeau de paille d'Italie
2012
as Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
MovieLe Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012
as Silvia
MovieMon pote
2010
as Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
MovieAll About Actresses
2009
as La baby-sitter
Ça va bien se passer
as Amara Sacko
