Aminata Diallo Glez

{{short description|Burkinabé filmmaker, actor, and producer (born 1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Aminata Diallo Glez | birth_date = {{bya|1972}} | birth_place = Dori, Burkina Faso | occupation = Actress, producer | spouse = Damien Glez | awards = Best Series at FESPACO 200 }} '''Aminata Diallo Glez''' (born 1972) is a Burkinabé filmmaker, actor, and producer also known as '''Kadi Jolie'''.<ref name=LeFaso>[https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article34726 Aminata Diallo Glez: Itinéraire d’une comédienne sans fard], LeFaso.net, 31 December 2009. Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref>

==Life== Born in Dori, Burkina Faso, Aminata Diallo is one of nine children of Hassane Diallo, a veterinary doctor, and Mandy Togoyéni. She hoped as a child to be a doctor, but her father died in 1983, when she was in high school. She continued her education in Wemtenga, a district of Ouagadougou. After encountering Théâtre de la fraternité, the theatre troupe of Jean-Pierre Guingané, she joined the troupe after school. Instead of taking up a place to study linguistics at the University of Ouagadougou, she became a full-time actor, touring with Théâtre de la fraternité.<ref name=LeFaso/>

In the early 1990s Fanta Regina Nacro offered her a role in the film ''Puk-Nini'', which started Diallo's new career as a screen actress. As the principal heroine of the TV series ''Kadi jolie'', she acquired an Africa-wide following.<ref name=LeFaso/>

She started her own TV production company, Jovial Productions, which has produced series including 'Trois hommes, un village' (winner of Best Series at FESPACO 2005), ''Trois femmes, un village'' and ''Super flics'' (or ''Marc and Malika''). In 2006 she also founded an art festival, "Fet' Arts".<ref name=LeFaso/>

She is married to Damien Glez, the cartoonist for ''Jeune Afrique''.<ref>[https://www.pressafrik.com/Qui-est-Damien-Glez-le-caricaturiste-de-Jeune-Afrique_a145856.html Qui est Damien Glez, le caricaturiste de Jeune Afrique?], ''Press Afrik'', 29 January 2016. Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fasozine.com/index.php/portrait/2020-aminata-diallo-glez-itineraire-dune-comedienne-sans-fard|title=Hôpital Yalgado : 9 cartons de médicaments saisis par la police|last=Kaboré|first=Dimitri|date=11 July 2017|website=FASOZINE:Quotidien Burkinabè de linformation|language=fr-fr|access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref>

For a while she retired from public life to care for her mother, who had cancer,<ref>[https://l-frii.com/burkina-faso-la-triste-histoire-de-kadi-jolie-aminata-diallo-glez/ Burkina Faso: la triste histoire de Kadi Joli (Aminata Diallo Glez)], ''L-DRII'', 2 September 2019. Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref> and who died in 2019.<ref>Daouda Zongo, [https://www.wakatsera.com/necrologie-inhumation-de-la-mere-de-kadi-jolie-au-cimetiere-de-gounghin-ce-mardi/ Nécrologie: inhumation de la mère de Kadi jolie au cimetière de Gounghin ce mardi], ''Wakat Séra'', 15 October 2019. Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref>

== Filmography == === Producer === * ''Super flics'' (2008) * ''Trois femmes, un village'' (2009)

=== Actress === * ''Puk Nini de Fanta Régina Nacro'' (1996) as Ada * ''Conseils d'une tante d'Idrissa Ouedraogo'' (2001) as Kadi Jolie * ''Kadi Jolie d'Idrissa Ouedraogo'' (2001) as Kadi Jolie

== External links == *{{IMDb name | id= 0224503 | name= Animata Diallo }}

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