Mbissine Thérèse Diop

Mbissine Thérèse Diop

76 (1949-01-01)
Dakar, Senegal

Mbissine Thérèse Diop is a Senegalese actress, known for Black Girl (1966), Emitaï (1971) and Cuties (2020).

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Black Girl 1966 (7.281)

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
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Cuties 2020 (5.153)

Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.
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Emitaï 1973 (7.286)

As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
Mbissine Thérèse Diop

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Our Memory 2022

Mbissine Thérèse Diop played the starring role in Ousmane Sembène’s landmark first feature, 1966’s Black Girl (La Noire de…). Today, she looks back on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s.