Fatou N’Diaye Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Nationalities Senegalese, French

BIOGRAPHY
Fatou N’Diaye flew from her native Senegal to Paris at the age of eight. In 1997, when she was 17 years old, the famous Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani spotted her and encouraged her to work as a model. With her advantageous physique, she embarked on a career as a top model while increasing the number of castings for both the small and big screens.

She found her first role in Fatou la Malienne by Daniel Vigne . In this TV film broadcast in 2000, she plays the main character, that of a young 18-year-old woman who, with her baccalaureate in her pocket, dreams of doing the hair of models during fashion shows in London. An ambition clashing with the will of his parents (played by Mariam Kaba and Pascal Nzonzi ).

Fatou N’Diaye then appeared in the comedy Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), the musical film Nha fala (2003) and the drama A Sunday in Kigali (2006). But it is above all on television that she is most active, as evidenced by her performances in the TV films Fatou l’Espagne (sequel to Fatou la Malienne), Cinq de cœur or Merci papa, merci Maman .

During the 2010s, the actress starred in one or more episodes of the series (often police) Maison broth , Le Passage du Désir , Engrenages and Capitaine Marleau .

On the cinema side, Fatou N’Diaye plays a prostitute who bewitches drug addict cyclist Vincent Rottiers in the particularly dark drama Un ange (2019). A year later, she was chosen to take part in the highly anticipated OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa , the third parody part dedicated to Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, the hilarious spy always played by Jean Dujardin .