Léonie Simaga
Acting
1977-11-30 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, 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.
Filmography
TheatersOne Minute to Midnight
2026 · Movie
Uniformes
2026 · Series
Les Justicières de Saint Flour
2026 · Movie
Apparences
2026 · Series
French Soldiers of the Third Reich
2026 · Series
Guru
2026 · Movie
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025 · Movie
Clean
2025 · Series
37 secondes
2025 · Series
The Intruder
2025 · Series
Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories
2025 · Series
Brocéliande
2024 · Series
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
2024 · Movie
Machine
2024 · Series
Le Négociateur
2024 · Series
LT-21
2023 · Series
Respire
2023 · Movie
Les Secrets du Paquebot
2023 · Movie
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
2023 · Movie
The Peace and Love Process
2023 · Movie
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023 · Movie
The Green Perfume
2022 · Movie
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
2022 · Movie
Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
2022 · Movie
Save Our School
2022 · Movie
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 · Movie
Summer of revolution
2022 · Movie
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
2022 · Movie
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
2022 · Movie
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021 · Movie
Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous
2021 · Movie
Je te promets
2021 · Series
Meurtres à Albi
2021 · Movie
The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA
2020 · Series
The Flame
2020 · Series
The Eddy
2020 · Series
Maisonneuve - A School of the World
2020 · Movie
L'Orientalisme
2019 · Movie
Alice and the Mayor
2019 · Movie
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018 · Movie
Little Tickles
2018 · Movie
Les Impatientes
2018 · Series
A Season in France
2018 · Movie
Jeune Femme
2017 · Movie
Trepalium
2016 · Series
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015 · Movie
Closed Circuit
2013 · Movie
Les Limiers
2013 · Series
Just Love!
2013 · Movie
Murders in...
2013 · Series
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
2012 · Movie
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012 · Movie
Mon pote
2010 · Movie
All About Actresses
2009 · Movie
L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre
2006 · Movie
La dernière veillée
Series
Ça va bien se passer
Movie