Mata Gabin
Acting
Biography
Mata Gabin is an actress, author, and actress of theatre, born in 1972 in Toulépleu, Côte d'Ivoire. She is of French nationality.
Born: February 29, 1972
Place of Birth: Toulépleu, Ivory Coast
Known For
The Nameless Woman: The Story of Jeanne & Baudelaire
The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).
Accusé
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Monsieur Ibrahim
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
Moon
Is a spectacular journey across 4 billion years of evolution exploring how the Moon has been essential in setting up the pace to create life on Earth and how it has been a source of inspiration and fascination for men ever since
L'Étrange Histoire de Mr. Anderson
Jey, a young rapper, quits his daily life to embrace his musical career but is confronted to his second personality: Mr. Anderson.
L'Opéra
Set in the shrine of French dance, the Garnier Opera house, L'Opera follows three characters whose dreams clash with reality, whose ambitions collide with expectations, and whose purity faces corruption.
The African Doctor
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
Under the Starry Sky
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
The Red, White and Blue of My Hair
Seyna, a young Cameroonian woman fascinated by French history, dreams of gaining citizenship of the country she so loves as soon as she reaches 18. Will it be just a formality, or a much tougher path?
Filmography
as Liliane
as Adama Diop
as Narrator (voice)
as Margaux Capelli
as Annette Soumaré
as The Witch
as Adèle
as Djenabou
as The owner of the bar
as Mado
as African goddess (voice)
as Catherine
as Entité
as Rose
as La femme de ménage
as Commissaire divisionnaire Lucie Dardenne
as Lucinda
as Mata
as Femme nue dans la mer
as Sista
as Fatoumata
as Le juge Rorcher
as Marijo
as Hortense
as Arleth Shenge
as Nkruma's wife
as Fatou
as Helene Bijou
as Rose Decastel
as Nolwenn