Eye Haïdara (; born 7 March 1983) is a French-speaking actress from

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Biography

Eye Haïdara was born in 1983 to Malian parents (her father also has Moroccan origins) who returned to live in the south of

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(Mali). She began acting in theater under the encouragement of her primary school teacher at Boulevard Bessières in the

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. After a traditional educational path, obtaining a baccalaureate with a theater option from Lycée Racine in Paris in 2001, and then a DEUG in Performing Arts from

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in 2003, she attended acting classes at Acting International under the direction of Robert Cordier.

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* * French film actresses 21st-century French actresses Living people 1983 births Actresses from Boulogne-Billancourt Black French actresses French people of Malian descent Malian actresses {{France-screen-actor-stub