Manie Malone

Known as the "chameleon actress" (* press quote), Manie Malone has cultural influences from Europe, Africa, United States and Russia. After her degree, she goes to University and studies Literature. To provide her studies, among different student jobs, she replies to an ads and auditions as an extra in a feature film but the casting directress Meji U' Tumsi notices her personality and eventually Manie plays the lead female in the community movie NO WAY by Owell Brown. From there and while continuing her literature studies, Manie gets acting workshops, notably based on Stella Adler method, and starts as a stage actress to develop her performing skills. A few years later, she plays Nora, (female lead) in VIVA RIVA by Djo Munga ( Toronto Film Festival Official Selection / MTV Movie + TV Awards Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival). This is a complete transforming and challenging role as she plays in a country she's never been before, with cultural codes totally different from hers, in a language she decides to learn to be totally fluent and free to propose improvisations for the character. Thanks to the strength and femininity Manie put into drama heroine Nora, she brings "afro-euro flare to the big screen" (press quote **) Manie makes a great impression on critics and received her first awards being nominated as Best Actress at African Movie Academy Awards and at Trophées Francophones du Cinema ceremony chaired by director Costa Gavras. Her acting performance has been featured in the collection of pre-selection of the 38th Cesars awards ceremony (France) in the following categories : Best Newcomer Actress and Best Actress. The movie has been selected in Toronto Film Festival- Official Selection- and got Manie promote it in New York and Los Angeles ( via US Distributor Music Box films). From 2012 to 2016, while continuing acting, Manie writes three first short essays experiencing different ranges and an adaptation for a feature film in Ivory Coast, four creations more or less shifted to the concept of exile. End of 2015, she is invited by Trophées Francophones du Cinema team and awards young African directors. During the awards ceremony, Manie is introduced on the stage of the Palais de la Culture in attendance of Madame Dominique Ouattara, First Lady of the Republic of Ivory Coast, and Sir Maurice Bandaman, Minister of Culture and Francophonie. Manie takes the opportunity of the event to offer a free masterclass about Acting and the Essence of a Character to students from INSAAC / National Higher Institute of Fine Arts and Arts in West Africa (Abidjan-RCI). In 2016 Manie is contacted by a Zambian local fledgling production to play in a drama feature film. In 2017, she flights on her own to Lusaka, Republic of Zambia and help the local production. She considers it as a chance to come along with African Actors and co-write the movie. On this low economy project, she develops her self-resources and abilities through different departments of movie making. End of 2017 and 2018, Manie accepts her first English acting part in TV series AGENT and flights again to join Cinebar Studio Ltd Team. In Mauritius, co-working with South African actors, she composes again a total transforming role. The show is about to be broadcasted on 2019-2020. All these experiences, far from home, provides Manie a high endurance and adaptation capacity in her professional and personal life and got her to work in 6 different African countries such as South Africa, Congo, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Mauritius. In 2018, Manie keeps developing skills as an actress in acting workshops and studying Cinema and Technics in writing. On November she wrote the short movie INTEGRE that gives thoughts to the usefulness of detention centers in case of Minors Immigrating and the notion of National Identity through universal notions of Fraternity.