| Awa Sène Sarr | |
| Nationality: | Senegalese |
| Years Active: | 1989-present |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Education: | University of Dakar |
| Notable Works: | Kirikou and the Sorceress |
Awa Sène Sarr is a Senegalese actress and comedian.
Desiring to become a lawyer, Sarr studied law at the University of Dakar. She later enrolled in the National Institute of the Arts of Dakar in Senegal and graduated in 1980.[1]
She has been a resident at the Daniel-Sorano National Theater in Dakar since 1980. Sarr has participated in several film festivals, including Cannes in 2005.[1] In 2000, she played Mada in Ousmane Sembène's Faat Kiné.[2]
Sarr has performed in over forty plays, including texts by Marie N'Diaye, Ahmadou Kourouma, Catherine Anne and Philippe Blasband.[1] She organizes the Horlonge du Sud literary café every month in Brussels, intended to highlight African literature.[3]
She hosted a radio program on Wolof language poetry entitled Taalifi Doomi Réewmi on the Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS).[1]
Sarr has voiced Karaba the witch in Michel Ocelot's film trilogy Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005), and Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012).[4] In the final film, she advised Ocelot to include a scene under a baobab tree in the village with a griot.[5]