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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.
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…
Apr 28, 2010 · Thérèse M’Bissine Diop of Senegal, a pioneer actor in African cinema, is best known for her performance in the classic film, La Noire de… (1966) by Ousmane Sembene. Her only other role in an African film was as one of the anonymous women in quiet resistance in Sembene’s 1971 film Emitai.
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 ...
Dec 15, 2016 · The first feature by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, known as the father of African cinema, exposed the legacies of colonialism with a dignified and heartbreaking performance from Mbissine Thérèse Diop, says Sarah Jilani.
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.
Feb 10, 2017 · "Black Girl" centers on Diouana, a young illiterate Senegalese woman, played by the lovely Mbissine Therese Diop, who has worked for a French colonial couple in the capital city of Dakar.
