Birane Ba

After attending a performance of La Grande Magia by Eduardo De Filippo, directed by Dan Jemmett at the Comédie-Française’s Salle Richelieu in 2009, 14-year-old Birane Ba decided to become an actor. He began in his middle school drama club before training at the conservatories of Vernon and Rouen. He was then admitted to the prestigious Classe Libre at Cours Florent and later to the French National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris. On stage, he notably appeared in Jamais seul by Mohamed Rouabhi, directed by Patrick Pineau at MC93. At the same time, he made his screen debut in Cédric Kahn’s The Prayer (La Prière) and in the television series Paris, etc., directed by Zabou Breitman.

In 2018, Birane Ba joined the Comédie-Française as an auxiliary actor and became a full company member the following year. He made his debut there in Scapin the Schemer (Les Fourberies de Scapin), directed by Denis Podalydès, followed by Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, directed by Éric Ruf, who later cast him in the title role of Racine’s Bajazet.

In 2023, he played Macheath in Thomas Ostermeier’s production of The Threepenny Opera at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and appeared as “The Boy,” a role written specifically for him by playwright Amine Adjina in a play inspired by Pasolini’s Teorema, co-directed with Émilie Prévosteau.

Lilo Baur cast him as Rugby in A Flea in Her Ear, while Rose Martine entrusted him with the title role in Hansel and Gretel, an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale.

More recently, he appeared as Medvedenko in The Seagull (directed by Elsa Granat), Lignière in Cyrano de Bergerac (Emmanuel Daumas), Clitandre in The Misanthrope (Clément Hervieu-Léger), and reunited with Hervieu-Léger for The Cherry Orchard.

On screen, he appeared in Tristan Séguéla’s Mercato (2025). He has also worked with Romain Gavras on Athena and appeared in the series Transatlantic and Sentinelles.