Awa Sène Sarr is a Senegalese actress and comedian.

Biography

Desiring to become a lawyer, Sarr studied law at the

University of Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop University (), also known as the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop and has an enrollment of over 60, ...

. She later enrolled in the National Institute of the Arts of Dakar in Senegal and graduated in 1980. She has been a resident at the Daniel-Sorano National Theater in Dakar since 1980. Sarr has participated in several film festivals, including Cannes in 2005. In 2000, she played Mada in

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's '' Faat Kiné''. Sarr has performed in over forty plays, including texts by Marie N'Diaye, Ahmadou Kourouma, Catherine Anne and Philippe Blasband. She organizes the Horlonge du Sud literary café every month in

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, intended to highlight African literature. She hosted a radio program on

Wolof language Wolof ( ; , ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, ...

poetry entitled Taalifi Doomi Réewmi on the Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS). Sarr has voiced Karaba the witch in

Michel Ocelot Michel Ocelot (; born 27 October 1943) is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator and other roles in earlier works) and a former pre ...

's film trilogy ''

Kirikou and the Sorceress ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'' (, ) is a 1998 French-language Animated film, animated Adventure film, adventure fantasy film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kir ...

'' (1998), '' Kirikou and the Wild Beasts'' (2005), and '' Kirikou and the Men and Women'' (2012). In the final film, she advised Ocelot to include a scene under a baobab tree in the village with a

griot A griot (; ; Manding languages, Manding: or (in N'Ko script, N'Ko: , or in French spelling); also spelt Djali; or / ; ) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicatin ...

Partial filmography

*1989 : ''

Dakar Clando Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the w ...

'' *1989 : '' Le grotto de Sou Jacob'' *1997 : '' Une couleur café d'Henri Duparc'' *1998 : ''

'' *2000 : '' Faat Kiné'' *2000 : '' Amul Yakaar'' *2000 : '' Battù'' *2001 : ''

Karmen Geï ''Karmen Geï'' is a musical drama film, directed by Joseph Gaï Ramaka and released in 2001. A coproduction of companies from Senegal, France and Canada, the film is an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera ''Carmen'' in a Senegalese setting, wit ...

'' *2005 : '' Kirikou and the Wild Beasts'' *2012 : '' Kirikou and the Men and Women''

References

External links

Awa Sene Sarr
at the

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