Fatou N'Diaye

Fatou N'Diaye is a French actress, originally from Senegal, born 1980 in Saint-Louis du Sénégal.

For the French basketball player, see Fatou N'Diaye (basketball).

Biography

At age 8, she left Senegal and moved with her mother to Paris, France.

In 1997, she was found by Oliviero Toscani, commercial photographer for the Benetton brand, which led her to become a model.

N'Diaye learned Guinea-Bissau Creole for her leading role as Vita in the 2002 film Nha fala.[1][2]

Filmography

References
  1. Arenas, Fernando (2011). Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence. University of Minnesota Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780816669837.
  2. McCluskey, Audrey Thomas (2007). Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Indiana University Press. p. 515. ISBN 9780253348296.
  3. Rosenthal, Daniel (2007). 100 Shakespeare Films. British Film Institute. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9781844571703.
  4. Prorokova, Tatiana (2018). "Shaming the West". In Edwards, Matthew (ed.). The Rwandan Genocide on Film. McFarland. p. 73. ISBN 9781476670720.
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