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

• Apparences — Capitaine Sarah Santoni
• French Soldiers of the Third Reich — Narrator (voice)
• 2026Guru — Karla Demaison
• 2026Les Justicières de Saint Flour — Inès Tridot
• 2026One Minute to Midnight — Éléonore
• Uniformes — Maddie
• 37 secondes — Laurence Binet
• Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories — Narratrice
• Clean — Jess
• The Intruder — Aline
• Brocéliande — Pauline Diawara
• Le Négociateur — Frédérique
• Machine — Colonel Karras
• 2024Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée — Narratrice
• LT-21 — Asia Dialo
• 2023Les Secrets du Paquebot — Léa
• 2023Respire — Sofia
• 2023The Peace and Love Process — Aïssa
• 2022Alain Resnais, the Audacious — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love — Lucie Dreyfus (voice)
• 2022Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933) — Narratrice
• 2022Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature — narrator
• 2022Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art — Narrator
• 2022Save Our School — Ingrid
• 2022Summer of revolution — Annette Lévy-Willard (voix)
• 2022The Green Perfume — Louise
• 2021Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté — (Voix Off)
• Je te promets — Agnès Gallo
• 2021Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous — Narration
• 2021Meurtres à Albi — Annabelle Dalmasio
• 2020Maisonneuve - A School of the World — Narratrice (voix-off)
• The Eddy — Commandant Keita
• The Flame — Sarah
• 2019Alice and the Mayor — Isabelle Leinsdorf
• 2019L'Orientalisme — Narrator
• 2018A Season in France — Martine
• 2018Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening — Narrator (voice)
• Les Impatientes — Isabelle Maroni
• 2018Little Tickles — Lola
• 2017Jeune Femme — Yuki
• Trepalium — Izia Katell / Thaïs Garcia
• 2013Closed Circuit — Léa
• 2013Just Love! — Silvia
• Les Limiers — Sara Mauduit
• Murders in... — Annabelle Dalmasio
• 2012Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard — Silvia
• 2012Un chapeau de paille d'Italie — Virginie, bonne chez Beauperthuis
• 2010Mon pote — Anna Duchêne, Bruno's wife
• 2009All About Actresses — La baby-sitter
• 2006L'Amour Médecin suivi de Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre — Lucinde / Léonie Simaga
• La dernière veillée — Imane
• Ça va bien se passer — Amara Sacko

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2026Lady Liberty: Secrets of an Icon — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2025Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2023Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2023Newark USA: Far from the American Dream — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Long War: Iran, Israel, USA — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2015Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran — Self