Awa Sène Sarr

Awa Sène Sarr
NationalitySenegalese
EducationUniversity of Dakar
OccupationActress
Years active1989-present
Notable workKirikou and the Sorceress

Awa Sène Sarr is a Senegalese actress and comedian.

Biography

Desiring to become a lawyer, Sarr studied law at the University of Dakar. She later enrolled in the National Institute of the Arts of Dakar in Senegal and graduated in 1980.[1]

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.[1] In 2000, she played Mada in Ousmane Sembène's Faat Kiné.[2]

Sarr has performed in over forty plays, including texts by Marie N'Diaye, Ahmadou Kourouma, Catherine Anne and Philippe Blasband.[1] She organizes the Horlonge du Sud literary café every month in Brussels, intended to highlight African literature.[3]

She hosted a radio program on Wolof language poetry entitled Taalifi Doomi Réewmi on the Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS).[1]

Sarr has voiced Karaba the witch in Michel Ocelot's film trilogy Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005), and Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012).[4] In the final film, she advised Ocelot to include a scene under a baobab tree in the village with a griot.[5]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Awa Sène Sarr". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Elvis (28 March 2001). "FILM REVIEW; At a Gas Station, Finding the Answers to Life's Questions". New York Times. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Awa Sène Sarr dans Bruxelles revit : de la littérature africaine aux "masques pour tous"". BX1 (in French). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Awa Sene Sarr". RFI (in French). 6 April 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. ^ Schwartz, Arnaud (29 October 2012). "QUE SONT-ILS DEVENUS ? AWA SENE SARR. La dame de Pikine". La Croix. Retrieved 6 October 2020.