Fatou_N'Diaye_(actress)

Fatou N'Diaye (actress)

Fatou N'Diaye (actress)

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

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

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Biography

At 8 years old, she left Senegal with her mother, and moved to Paris.

In 1997, aged 16/17, she was discovered by Oliviero Toscani, commercial photographer for the Benetton brand, which, subsequently, led to modelling assignments.

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

Filmography

References

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