Mata Gabin is an
actress
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,
author
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, and
actress of theatre, born in 1972 in
Toulépleu
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Ivory Coast. She is of French nationality.
Biography
She was born on the border of
Liberia and
Ivory Coast, to a
Liberian-
Guinean mother and a father from
Martinique
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. She was adopted at three years of age by her uncle and her aunt from Corsica. At an early age, Gabin was cared for by her
Argentinian
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grandmother and her
Italian
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husband. She has now been living in Paris for more than ten years and has played various roles in both theater and film. Gabin also writes her own scripts, preferably at dusk. She is a highly professional artist but is also known as being "down to earth", with a great sense of humor.
Theater
Filmography
See also
*
Cinema of France
External links
*
Mata Gabin Official Site
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1972 births
French film actresses
French television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Paris
Black French actors
French people of Guinean descent
French people of Liberian descent
French people of Martiniquais descent
French people of Argentine descent
French stage actresses
French adoptees
21st-century French actresses