Naky Sy Savané
Ivorian actress (born 1970)
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Naky Sy Savané (born 1970) is a film, television, and stage actress from Côte d'Ivoire.
The granddaughter of an imam, Naky Sy Savané became an actress despite conservative Muslim prejudice against the profession.[1][2] She played numerous stage roles, including in Jean Racine's Britannicus and the title role in Jean Anouilh's Antigone.[3] She credits film director Henri Duparc for discovering her in the theater and starting her film career.[4] For her performance in Au Nom du Christ (1993), she was awarded Best Actress at the 1994 Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga.[5] In Fanta Régina Nacro's La Nuit de la vérité (2004), she plays Emma, the wife of the president of a fictional country in the midst of a civil war who loses her young son in a massacre.[6]
In 2023, she starred as Mariama Diop, the mother of the protagonist Assane Diop, in the third season of the French television show Lupin.[7]
Filmography
- 1987 : Les Guérisseurs, dir. Sidiki Bakaba[3]
- 1988 : Bal Poussière ("Dancing in the Dust"), dir. Henri Duparc[8]
- 1990 : Le Sixième Doigt, dir. Henri Duparc[3]
- 1993 : Au nom du Christ ("In the Name of Christ"), dir. Roger Gnoan M'bala[3]
- 1994 : Afrique, mon Afrique, dir. Idrissa Ouedraogo[3]
- 1997 : La Jumelle ("The Twin"), dir. Diaby Lanciné[3]
- 2002 : Moolaadé, dir. Ousmane Sembène[2]
- 2004 : La Nuit de la vérité ("The Night of Truth"), dir. Fanta Régina Nacro[6]
- 2017 : Frontières dir. Apolline Traoré[9]