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Awa Sène Sarr
Awa Sène Sarr is a Senegalese actress and comedian. BiographyDesiring 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
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