He was able to make very bad people tremble, also to move… Always intense.
Comedian Adama Niane died on Saturday at the age of 56, we learned on Monday from his entourage.
Discreet, his face was nevertheless well known to viewers who had discovered him in around twenty successful series including "PJ" (France 2), "Maroni, the ghosts of the river" (Arte), "La Mante" (TF1) .
Maths teacher with the crazy French teacher "Sam" for the front page, he had also taken the dress of the lawyer Sébastien Sangha in more than forty episodes of "Plus belle la vie", the cult soap opera of France 3 arrested last November.
Recently, the actor born in Paris in August 1966 and a graduate of the Institute of Theatrical Studies of Paris III appeared as a monk with a singular history entrenched in the heart of an isolated abbey in "La fille de l'hiver" , a part of the mountain fiction “Alex Hugo” (France 3).
It also appeared in the credits of "The Island of Thirty Coffins", an adaptation of Maurice Leblanc's book, available in 6 episodes on La Deux last spring.
“Lupin”, where he tracked down the gentleman burglar played by Omar Sy for Netflix, had opened a window to the world for him.
He had played Guy Georges in "The SK1 Affair"
In the cinema, the life of Adama Niane had shifted into another dimension when he had agreed to play the serial killer and rapist Guy Georges, active in Paris during the 1990s and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001. , in the film “The SK1 Affair” by Frédéric Tellier released in theaters in 2015. “It never crossed my mind for a second not to go.
Only an intimate reason related to the case could have deterred me, he confided then to the Parisian.
I didn't want to meet Guy Georges, to get what information, anyway?
Try to ape it?
I preferred to rely on my work and my instincts as an actor.
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Four years ago, the artist from the theater had also hit the bull's eye in Oliver Abbou's feature film "Furie".
He camped there a perfectly integrated black Frenchman who wondered how far to go in his submission to social norms when mutual respect was not necessarily there.