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Mbissine Thérèse Diop (born 1949) is a Senegalese actress best known for her starring role as Diouana in the 1966 Ousmane Sembène film Black Girl (La noire de...), which is often cited as one of the first feature films of African cinema to go on to international acclaim.
- Senegalese
- Mbissine Thérèse Diop, 1949 (age 73–74), Dakar, Senegal
- Emitai
- Black Girl
Oct 5, 2015 · The 1965 classic stars Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a young Senegalese woman working as a housemaid who struggles after being brought to France. Livia Bloom spoke with the actress by phone. How did you meet Ousmane Sembene and become involved with Black Girl (aka La Noire de…
Mbissine Thérèse Diop gives a harrowing, quietly fiery performance as Diouana, a woman who’s brought from Dakar to the South of France to work for a young family; though the ostensible head of ...
A young African woman, Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop), leaves her home in Dakar to work as a maid for a white couple in southern France — and immediately regrets her decision.
May 17, 2016 · His predicament is not unlike that faced by Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop), the title character of “Black Girl,” whose daily routines of drudgery and tedium drive her into depression and worse.
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Sep 8, 2020 · The girl is Amy Diop (Fathia Youssouf), an eleven-year-old of Senegalese descent, who lives in France with her observant Muslim family.
May 16, 2016 · Mbissine Thérèse Diop, for whom Black Girl would mark both a screen debut and unknowing farewell, stars as Diouana, a young, bright-eyed Senegalese woman who moves to France to become a housemaid for a prosperous white family, only to unravel at the blithe and constant exploitation of her servantry from both her cruel mistress and passive master.
