Léonie Simaga
Acting
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.
TV Shows(19)
Uniformes
Maddie
2026
Apparences
Capitaine Sarah Santoni
2026
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
Narrator (voice)
2026
Clean
Jess
2025
37 secondes
Laurence Binet
2025
The Intruder
Aline
2025
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
Narratrice
2025
Brocéliande
Pauline Diawara
2024
Machine
Colonel Karras
2024
Le Négociateur
Frédérique
2024
LT-21
Asia Dialo
2023
Je te promets
Agnès Gallo
2021
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
The Flame
Sarah
2020
The Eddy
Commandant Keita
2020
Les Impatientes
Isabelle Maroni
2018
Trepalium
Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
2016
Les Limiers
Sara Mauduit
2013
Murders in...
Annabelle Dalmasio
2013
Movies(36)
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
Inès Tridot
2026
Guru
Karla Demaison
2026
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Narratrice
2024
Respire
Sofia
2023
Les Secrets du Paquebot
Léa
2023
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
The Peace and Love Process
Aïssa
2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
The Green Perfume
Louise
2022
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Narratrice
2022
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
narrator
2022
Save Our School
Ingrid
2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Narrator (voice)
2022
Summer of revolution
Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Narrator
2022
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
2022
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
(Voix Off)
2021
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
Narration
2021
Meurtres à Albi
Annabelle Dalmasio
2021
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
Narratrice (voix-off)
2020
L'Orientalisme
Narrator
2019
Alice and the Mayor
Isabelle Leinsdorf
2019
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Narrator (voice)
2018
Little Tickles
Lola
2018
A Season in France
Martine
2018
Jeune Femme
Yuki
2017
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Self
2015
Closed Circuit
Léa
2013
Just Love!
Silvia
2013
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
2012
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Silvia
2012
Mon pote
Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
2010
All About Actresses
La baby-sitter
2009
Un peu avant minuit
Ça va bien se passer
Amara Sacko