Léonie Simaga
Born: 1977-11-30 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Guru as Karla Demaison
- Uniformes as Maddie
- Apparences as Capitaine Sarah Santoni
- Un peu avant minuit as Éléonore
- French Soldiers of the Third Reich as Narrator (voice)
- Les Justicières de Saint Flour as Inès Tridot
2025
- 37 secondes as Laurence Binet
- The Intruder as Aline
- Clean as Jess
- Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories as Narratrice
- Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light as Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
- Machine as Colonel Karras
- Le Négociateur as Frédérique
- Brocéliande as Pauline Diawara
- Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée as Narratrice
2023
- LT-21 as Asia Dialo
- Respire as Sofia
- The Peace and Love Process as Aïssa
- Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Newark USA: Far from the American Dream as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Les Secrets du Paquebot as Léa
2022
- The Green Perfume as Louise
- Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love as Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
- Alain Resnais, the Audacious as Narrator (voice)
- Summer of revolution as Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
- Save Our School as Ingrid
- Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature as narrator
- Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art as Narrator
- Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933) as Narratrice
2021
- Je te promets as Agnès Gallo
- Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
- Meurtres à Albi as Annabelle Dalmasio
- Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous as Narration
2020
- The Eddy as Commandant Keita
- The Flame as Sarah
- The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Maisonneuve - A School of the World as Narratrice (voix-off)
2019
- Alice and the Mayor as Isabelle Leinsdorf
- L'Orientalisme as Narrator
2018
- Little Tickles as Lola
- Les Impatientes as Isabelle Maroni
- Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening as Narrator (voice)
- A Season in France as Martine
2017
- Jeune Femme as Yuki
2016
- Trepalium as Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
2015
2013
- Murders in... as Annabelle Dalmasio
- Les Limiers as Sara Mauduit
- Closed Circuit as Léa
- Just Love! as Silvia
2012
- Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard as Silvia
- Un chapeau de paille d'Italie as Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
2010
- Mon pote as Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
2009
- All About Actresses as La baby-sitter