Awa Sène Sarr

Awa Sène Sarr is a Senegalese actress and comedian.

Biography Desiring 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.

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.

Sarr has performed in over forty plays, including texts by Marie N'Diaye, Ahmadou Kourouma, Catherine Anne and Philippe Blasband.

She hosted a radio program on Wolof language poetry entitled Taalifi Doomi Réewmi on the Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS). In the final film, she advised Ocelot to include a scene under a baobab tree in the village with a griot.

Partial filmography 1989 : Dakar Clando 1989 : Le grotto de Sou Jacob 1997 : Une couleur café d'Henri Duparc 1998 : Kirikou and the Sorceress 2000 : Faat Kiné 2000 : Amul Yakaar 2000 : Battù 2001 : Karmen Geï 2005 : Kirikou and the Wild Beasts 2012 : Kirikou and the Men and Women