Léonie Simaga

Léonie Simaga

Born: November 30, 1977
in Marseille, France
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.

Movies for Léonie Simaga...

Title: Machine
Character: Colonel Karras
Released: April 4, 2024
Type: TV
An action show mixing kung-fu and class war.
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Title: Le Négociateur
Character: Frédérique
Released: March 25, 2024
Type: TV
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Title: LT-21
Character: Asia Dialo
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: TV
The LT-21 virus hits France and starts spreading worldwide. It won't cause a single death. But are we still fully alive when we've forgotten everything? Because infected patients develop total retrograde amnesia. Asia and Gabriel, a couple of doctors, do everything to stop the epidemic and protect the patients held in a hospital under military surveillance.
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Respire
Title: Respire
Character: Sofia
Released: September 12, 2023
Type: Movie
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Les Secrets du Paquebot
Title: Les Secrets du Paquebot
Character: Léa
Released: September 9, 2023
Type: Movie
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Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Title: Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: July 30, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of the city of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, USA; unlikely capital of the struggle for civil rights in the legendary sixties of the convulsive twentieth century, told through the eyes of writers Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, who were born and grew up there, in the ominous shadow of the immense New York.
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The Peace and Love Process
Title: The Peace and Love Process
Character: Aïssa
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.
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Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Title: Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: March 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the Hollywood mould and wanted to do things her own way.
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The Green Perfume
Title: The Green Perfume
Character: Louise
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: Movie
In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.
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Edvard Munch: Un cri dans la nature
Title: Edvard Munch: Un cri dans la nature
Character: narrator
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: Movie
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to express his most violent emotions in the face of death and love, bringing them together in a great whole, the "Frieze of Life". Nature, in perpetual movement, the bearer of vital momentum, helped him to exalt his anguish of living through its colors and undulating lines.
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Avant la catastrophe
Title: Avant la catastrophe
Character: Narratrice
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
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Save Our School
Title: Save Our School
Character: Ingrid
Released: September 28, 2022
Type: Movie
A delightful and ebullient comedy on Paris’ first suburban “green school”.
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Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Title: Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Character: Narrator
Released: April 5, 2022
Type: Movie
There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic elimination of cultural traditions, religions and lifeways which would occur sporadically through genocides and warfare until the early 20th century throughout the African continent—surveying the inquiries and movements for historical justice, the relationships between European institutions and colonial violence and following enduring struggles against these organisations to regain what was taken.
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Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Title: Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Character: Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
Released: February 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Victim of a terrible plot, Captain Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. During five years, the Dreyfus spouses exchanged hundreds of letters. They became a weapon of survival for Alfred. This film is the story of the correspondence of a man and a woman who unwittingly became the unsung heroes of the case that bears their name.
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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Title: Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Character: (Voix Off)
Released: November 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.
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Meurtres a Albi
Title: Meurtres a Albi
Released: July 19, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Je te promets
Character: Agnès Gallo
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: November 22, 2020
Type: TV
Today, Israel and the United States are Iran's enemies par excellence. Their reconciliation seems impossible. Is the history of these three countries the chronicle of a war foretold, delayed for decades but inevitable?
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Title: La Flamme
Character: Sarah
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: The Eddy
Character: Commandant Keita
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: TV
The owner of a Paris jazz club gets tangled up with dangerous criminals as he fights to protect his business, his band and his teenage daughter.
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L'Orientalisme
Title: L'Orientalisme
Character: Narrator
Released: August 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the Maghreb) or the Levant (the Middle East). Orientalism was born from the fascination of the Ottoman Empire and followed its slow disintegration and the progression of European colonizations. This exotic trend is associated with all the artistic movements of the 19th century, academic, romantic, realistic or even impressionist. It is present in architecture, music, painting, literature, poetry... Picturesque aesthetics, confusing styles, civilizations and eras, orientalism has created numerous clichés and clichés that we still find today in literature or cinema.
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Alice and the Mayor
Title: Alice and the Mayor
Character: Isabelle Leinsdorf
Released: May 18, 2019
Type: Movie
The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Title: Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 22, 2018
Type: Movie
How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “The Rainbow Tribe”, adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first black superstar, Josephine Baker.
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Little Tickles
Title: Little Tickles
Character: Lola
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
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Title: Les Impatientes
Character: Isabelle Maroni
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: TV
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A Season in France
Title: A Season in France
Character: Martine
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
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Jeune Femme
Title: Jeune Femme
Character: Yuki
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
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Title: Trepalium
Character: Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: TV
The economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall.
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Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Title: Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Closed Circuit
Title: Closed Circuit
Character: Léa
Released: October 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Hired to oversee the security of a superstore, Pierre soon discovers a dark secret and becomes a threat to the system he helped create.
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Title: Les Limiers
Character: Sara Mauduit
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: TV
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Just Love!
Title: Just Love!
Character: Silvia
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Annabelle Dalmasio
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Title: Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Character: Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
Released: December 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Mon pote
Title: Mon pote
Character: Anna
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
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All About Actresses
Title: All About Actresses
Character: La baby-sitter
Released: January 28, 2009
Type: Movie
While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
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Title: Rivales
Character: Aline
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: 37 secondes
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Summer of révolution
Title: Summer of révolution
Character: Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie