Malian screen star Sotigui Kouyate, who was declared most appropriate actress at a Berlin Film Festival final year, has died in Paris at a age of 74.
Kouyate won a endowment for playing a French Muslim waiting for headlines of his son in a wake of a 7/7 bombings in a film London River.
A former professional footballer, a actress began his career on stage as a favour to a friend.
He also had a long association with UK playwright Peter Brooke.
The span collaborated on a 1983 screen prolongation of Indian epic tale a Mahabharata.
Kouyate wrote and staged a number of plays himself, and was a owner of a Mandeko Theatre in a Malian collateral Bamako.
Kouyate, whose relatives came from a long line of griots - or traditional storytellers - was also done an military officer of arts and letters by a French supervision at a Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
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