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Anna Diop is a Senegalese-American actress.

Diop was born in Senegal, but moved to United States when she was six. In 2006, she made her television debut, appearing on Everybody Hates Chris. In the following years, she guest starred on Lincoln Heights, Whitney, and Touch. In film, Diop had a role opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Moment (2013). In 2015, Diop starred as Rose Arvale in the short-lived The CW supernatural drama series, The Messengers. Later that year, she appeared in the ABC thriller series Quantico and was cast in a recurring role on the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf. In 2016, Diop was cast as a series regular in the Fox series 24: Legacy opposite Corey Hawkins and Miranda Otto. In 2017, Diop was cast as the alien super-heroine Kory Anders / Starfire in the DC Universe superhero series Titans, which premiered in October 2018.

Nilperi Sahinkaya was born on 23 February 1988 in Dakar, Senegal. She is an actress, known for Karakomik Filmler: Kaçamak (2019), Same Thing (2019) and The Life and Movies of Ersan Kuneri (2022).

Trained as an actor at the College of Marin under the renowned James Dunn, studied at the Performing Arts Training Center in East Louis, Illinois under the direction of Katherine Dunham, the Michael Chekov Studio in New York City, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, France, and Teatro Il Loggione in Rome, Italy. He is fluent in several languages including Mandarin Chinese.

Aïssa Maïga is a Senegalsese actress working in France. She was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1975 to a Senegalese-Gambian mother and Malian father, an acclaimed journalist. She moved with her family to France when she was 4. She discovered her vocation as an actress in middle school, and won various professional roles while studying theater in high school. Her big screen début was in Saraka bô (1997), directed by Denis Amar.

Since then, Aïssa has worked with a number of internationally renowned directors, including Michel Gondry (in Mood Indigo (2013), Abderrahmane Sissako (in Bamako (The Court) (2006)), and Michael Haneke (in Code Unknown (2000) and Caché (2005)). Throughout, Aïssa has continued to perform onstage in celebrated plays such as "Brooklyn Boy" (2004), "Les Grandes Personnes" (2011), and the French production of David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" (2015).

Aïssa is at ease in a wide range of film roles, from African to young parishioner, aided by her fluency in multiple languages. She has won or been nominated for a number of prestigious prizes, including a Best Newcomer César (French Oscar) nomination in 2007 for Bamako (The Court) (2006) and the Best Actress Prize in 2009 at the Bastia Film Festival for Bianco e nero (2008) by Italian director Cristina Comencini. She also won the Best Actress Prize in 2013 at the Luchon Film festival for her role in Denis Malleval's Deadly Summer (2013), as well as the Crystal Globe for Best Actress in 2016 for her role in Anything for Alice (2014).

From comedic and dramatic roles to genre and action movies, from popular to art house films, Aïssa Maïga has become one of the unforgettable faces of international cinema.

The first film director from an African country to achieve international recognition, Ousmane Sembene remains the major figure in the rise of an independent post-colonial African cinema. Sembene's roots were not, as might be expected, in the educated élite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, serving in Africa and France. In 1946, he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947. The next year he returned to France, where he worked in a Citröen factory in Paris, and then, for ten years, on the dock in Marseilles. During this time Sembene became very active in trade union struggles and began an extraordinarily successful writing career. His first novel, "Le Docker Noir", was published in 1956 to critical acclaim. Since then, he has produced a number of works which have placed him in the foreground of the international literary scene. Long an avid filmgoer, Sembene became aware that to reach a mass audience of workers and preliterate Africans outside urban centers, cinema was a more effective vehicle than the written word. In 1961, he traveled to Moscow to study film at VGIK and then to work at the Gorky Studios. Upon his return to Senegal, Sembene turned his attention to filmmaking and, after two short films, he wrote and directed his first feature, Black Girl (1966)(english title: Black Girl). Received with great enthusiasm at a number of international film festivals, it also won the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize for its director. Shot in a simple, quasi-documentary style probably influenced by the French New Wave, BLACK GIRL tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman working as a maid for an affluent French family on the Riviera, focusing on her sense of isolation and growing despair. Her country may have been "decolonized," but she is still a colonial -- a non-person in the colonizers' world. Sembene's next film, Mandabi (1968) (english title: The Money Order), marked a sharp departure. Based on his novel of the same name and shot in color in two language versions--French and Wolof, the main dialect of Senegal--THE MONEY ORDER is a trenchant and often delightfully witty satire of the new bourgeoisie, torn between outmoded patriarchal traditions and an uncaring, rapacious and inefficient bureaucracy. Emitai (1971) records the struggle of the Diola people of the Casamance region of Senegal (where Sembene grew up) against the French authorities during WWII. Shot in Diola dialect and French from an original script, EMITAI offers a respectful but unromanticized depiction of an ancient tribal culture, while highlighting the role of women in the struggle against colonialist oppression. In Xala (1975), Sembene again takes on the native bourgeoisie, this time in the person of a rich, partially Westernized Moslem businessman afflicted by "xala" (impotence) on the night of his wedding to a much younger third wife. Outsiders (1977), considered by many to be Sembene's masterpiece, departs from the director's customary realist approach, documenting the struggle over the last centuries of an unspecified African society against the incursions of Islam and European colonialism. Featuring a strong female central character, CEDDO is a powerful evocation of the African experience.

Khabane "Khaby" Lame (born 9 March 2000) is a Senegalese-born TikToker based in Italy. He became known for his short comedy skits where he sarcastically and wordlessly ridicules people who seem to unreasonably complicate simple tasks. As of September 23, 2021, Lame has amassed over 113 million followers and over 1.7 billion likes on TikTok, making him the second most-followed TikTok account. On Instagram, he has over 46 million followers and has the second most-liked Instagram Reel.

Johnny Sekka was born on 21 July 1934 in Dakar, Senegal. He was an actor, known for The Message (1976), Babylon 5 (1993) and The Avengers (1961). He was married to Cecilia Enger. He died on 14 September 2006 in Agua Dulce, California, USA.

Clémentine Célarié was born on 12 October 1957 in Dakar, Senegal. She is an actress and writer, known for Pierre & Jeanne (2021), Betty Blue (1986) and Two Is a Family (2016).

Born the son of a Muslim cleric in Colobane, near Dakar, Senegal, Djibril Diop Mambéty received no formal training in filmmaking. He experimented with theater, but in 1968, he was asked to leave an avant-garde theater group. Shortly thereafter, he made his first film short called Badou Boy (1970), which dealt with the life of a young renegade. By 1973, he directed his first feature, Touki Bouki (1973), about disaffected youth, and it became an instant classic. It would be nearly twenty years before he would create another film, Hyenas (1992), which is considered a sequel to "Touki Bouki" and a parable based on the classic play "The Visit" by Frederich Durrenmatt. Although his films were considered to be politically oriented, Mambéty rejected the realism preferred by most African filmmakers. His films were notable for their dream-like quality that left the themes of his films entirely to the interpretation of the viewer; this was, of course, the desired effect. In spite of the fact that Mambéty only completed a few short films and a meager two full-length features, the quality of his short body of work has rendered him legendary status among African filmmakers and, indeed, the international film community.

Karine Silla was born on 6 July 1965 in Dakar, Senegal. She is an actress and writer, known for A Butterfly Kiss (2011), Peau d'ange (2002) and Une femme en blanc (1997). She has been married to Vincent Perez since 18 December 1998. They have three children.

Born in Senegal in 1962, ,Nicolas Vanier grew up on the farm belonging to his grandfather in Sologne where he developed his feeling for the ecology of nature and his love for animals.His adventures, in the style of an author he admires, Jack London, have taken him to Alaska, Canada, Lapland, Mongolia and Siberia, the northern lands where he also races dog sled with his own kennel.He has taken photographs from his trips , written novels and graphic novels and also directed shorts, documentaries, and fiction features.

Lamine Dieng was born on 30 October 1950 in Dakar, Senegal. He is an actor, known for Två bröder emellan (2004), Äkta människor (2012) and Hundtricket - The Movie (2002).

Youssou N'Dour was born on 1 October 1959 in Dakar, Senegal. He is a composer and actor, known for Amazing Grace (2006), Judge Dredd (1995) and Alone in the Dark (2005). He has been married to Aida Coulibaly since 2006.

Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese director and director of photography based in New York where he completed his MFA at Tisch School of the Arts, (NYU) in 2017. Shaped by this training and his experience working as a video-journalist for over eight years across the African continent, his stories explore the fine balance between fiction and fact, narrative and documentary. His latest short Samedi Cinema (2016) was premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Geneviève Kervine was born on 27 June 1931 in Dakar, Senegal. She was an actress, known for Four Days in Paris (1955), Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1961) and Pas de souris dans le business (1955). She was married to Jean Bretonnière. She died on 5 September 1989 in Paris, France.

Sidy Diop was born in Dakar Senegal on March 1975, and grew-up in New York City. At the age of 18 he started his journey in the Bronx. Curious and brave, he integrated into the street of New York chasing a dream. Few years later he found a job as a salesman in big shops in Soho,NY where he boosted his carrier as a Model... Couple of years later he decided to get into the acting industry, that push him to study at Wiest Barron Acting School. He studied with great coach as David Shuman, Batt Johnson. After Few years of training he decided to change direction, and moved to Rome, Italy where his career took a run as a professional actor in theater, and film. He is known in "Measure For Measure" di William Shakespeare directed by Gabiele Lavia, where he Interpreted "Bernardino". Few years later he got into the big screen, and interpreted "Dada" in "La Vita È Una Cosa Meravigliosa" directed by Carlo Vanzina. He's also known in "Gomorrah the Series" directed by Stefano Solima where he interpreted "Tokumbo". Slowly but surely, auditioning for film industry, got him to work with big director as: Carlo & Enrico Vanzina, Leonardo Pierraccioni, Alessandro Piva, Stefano Solima, Manetti Bro just to name a few. He's now based in Rome, and Dakar,Senegal Acting & Directing for film and theater!

Ghassan Salhab was born on 4 May 1958 in Dakar, Senegal. He is a director and writer, known for The Valley (2014), Phantom Beirut (1998) and Terra incognita (2002).

Born in Senegal, West Africa. Known for the role of Henri in Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. Finalist for the 2017 NBC / ABFF showcase. Amadou's life story made front page of the New York Times. His mother is a congresswoman. His father is a retired police officer. Amadou currently resides in Los Angeles.

Bass Dhem was born in 1955 in Thies, Senegal. He is an actor, known for Dheepan (2015), Maybe (1999) and Divines (2016).

Mbissine Thérèse Diop was born in 1949 in Dakar, Senegal, French West Africa [now Dakar, Senegal]. She is an actress, known for Black Girl (1966), Emitai (1971) and Cuties (2020).

Patrice Evra is a former Manchester United, Juventus and France footballer who is heralded as one of the best full-backs of his generation. He was born on 15 May 1981 in Bakar, Senegal. He moved to the Île-de-France region of France when he was just a year old. During his youth he played for various clubs in the Parisian region before having a short stint in Italy with Marsala and Monza. After a year Evra returned to France to play for Nice and shortly after he moved to rivals, AS Monaco.Evra got his first taste of silverware by winning the Coupe de la Ligue in 2003.By 2004, he was Didier Deschamps' first choice left-back in a team which made the UEFA Champions League final. Evra was also awarded the Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year award and included in the division's Team of the Year.Having impressed in France, he made the switch to the Premier League to join Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United. This is where Evra really started to make a name for himself, going onto win five Premier League titles, three League Cups, one UEFA Champions League, one FIFA Club World Cup and four Community Shields. He also won multiple personal accolades during his time at Manchester United, being named PFA Team of the Year on three separate occasions, Evra was also named in the FIFPro World XI and UEFA Team of the Year in the 2008-2009 season.During his time at Manchester United he fast became a fan favorite with his loud and charismatic personality - he has also become known for his vibrant, stand-out Instagram videos. He personified Manchester United's winning team ethic playing along side players such as Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Carlos Tevez and Rio Ferdinand. With 273 appearances for the club he cemented himself as a recent club legend before moving onto Serie A giants, Juventus.The transition from one winning team to another was seamless. In his first season for Juventus he went on to win a domestic double and followed that up in his second campaign by helping the Turin club secure a second domestic treble and the Supercoppa Italiana.Patrice Evra also had short term contracts with French club Marseille and east London side, West Ham.Evra also has vast experience on the International stage making 81 appearances for the French national side. He participated in five major tournaments; the 2008, 2012 and 2016 UEFA European Championships (runners-up) and the 2010 & 2014 World Cups.Patrice Evra also owns clothing brand with his famous slogan, 'I Love This Game!'.

Baaba Maal is a composer and actor, known for Black Panther (2018), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and Black Hawk Down (2001). He introduced the trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) at Comic-Con San Diego with a live performance alongside drummer Massamba Diop & a group of dancers. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary. Maal sings primarily in Pulaar and promotes the traditions of the Pulaar-speaking people, who live on either side of the Senegal River in the ancient Senegalese kingdom of Futa Tooro.

Marc Dugain was born on 3 May 1957 in Senegal, France. He is a writer and director, known for L'échange des princesses (2017), Eugénie Grandet (2021) and The Curse of Edgar (2013).

Born in 1958 in Sénégal, Moussa Touré starts working early for the cinema. Debuting as a technician he soon turns to direction, with a first short in 1987 and a first feature in 1991, the multi-awarded Toubab Bi (1991). As of 1987 he creates his own production firm "Les Films du Crocodile" through which he funds several documentaries. His next fiction film TGV (1998) is the talented account of the eventful journey of a rickety bus between Dakar and Conakry. In 2002 Touré sets up the "Moussa invite" Film Festival in Rufisque, Sénégal, a showcase for African documentaries made by Africans. His most recent achievement is The Pirogue (2012), a striking semi-documentary movie, brilliantly filmed and edited with the efficiency of a Hollywood blockbuster.

M.C. Solaar was born on 5 March 1969 in Dakar, Senegal. He is an actor and writer, known for True Blood (2008), Addicted to Love (1997) and Sex and the City (1998).