Mbissine Thérèse Diop

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Mbissine Thérèse Diop together with Ousmane Sembène's son (2009)

Mbissine Thérèse Diop (born around 1949 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese actress .

Life

Diop was born in Dakar, the oldest of several children. Her mother was a Catholic, her father was a Muslim, and she was raised in the traditions of both religions. She grew up with her maternal grandfather on one of the Senegalese mussel islands until she was two years old. When her grandfather died, she came to live with her mother in Dakar. At the age of 13 she lived in Corsica for three years .

Mbissine Thérèse Diop's first and most important film role was that of the protagonist in Ousmane Sembène's 1966 film Die Schwarze aus Dakar . The film is considered to be the first feature film in African cinema and Diop is often given a pioneering role for African actresses after her. At the time Die Schwarze aus Dakar was made, she was around 16 years old and had just come back to Senegal from France, was working as a tailor and was studying fashion in evening classes at an art school in Dakar. She also attended film shows at the time and was interested in learning more about filmmaking. At her art school she took acting lessons from Robert Fontaine , who plays her employer in films. She got the role through a photo taken of her by a photographer from Ivory Coast . Sembène saw the photo at an exhibition, asked the photographer about it and visited it.

The reactions to her role in the film were rather negative in her family and social environment: "There were those who said that an African woman who acted in the cinema was an immoral woman." Her mother did not speak to her for months due to her work as an actress. In later and international film reviews, she received a lot of praise for her performance.

After Die Schwarze von Dakar , she only took on a few film roles and remained a seamstress. In 1969 she was a member of the jury at the Moscow International Film Festival . She starred in a Soviet film adaptation of Patrice Lumumba’s life in 1970, directed by Aleksey Speschnew . In another Sembènes film, Emitaï , she played a supporting role. She has lived in Paris since 1977 .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Livia Bloom: Interview: Mbissine Thérèse Diop. In: Film Comment. October 5, 2015, accessed April 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Moussa Diop: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, les blessures de la première actrice africaine. In: Le Monde . April 9, 2015, accessed April 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Beti Ellerson: Thérèse Mbissine Diop. In: Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. 2000, accessed April 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Sarah Jiliani: In praise of Mbissine Thérèse Diop Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl. In: British Film Institute. December 15, 2016, accessed April 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ A. Van Jordan: The Cineaste . WW Norton & Company, 2013, p. 160 .
personal data
SURNAME Diop, Mbissine Thérèse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese actress
DATE OF BIRTH around 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar