Léonie Simaga

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 30, 1977 (47 years old)

Léonie Simaga

Known For

Machine
0h 45m
TV Show 2024

Machine

An action show mixing kung-fu and class war.

LT-21
TV Show 2023

LT-21

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.

The Peace and Love Process
1h 32m
Movie 2023

The Peace and Love Process

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.

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
0h 53m
Movie 2023

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

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.

The Green Perfume
1h 41m
Movie 2022

The Green Perfume

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.

The Green Perfume
1h 41m
Movie 2022

The Green Perfume

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.

Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Movie 2022

Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)

Save Our School
1h 34m
Movie 2022

Save Our School

A delightful and ebullient comedy on Paris’ first suburban “green school”.

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.