| Souléymane Sy Savané | |
|---|---|
| Born | Côte d'Ivoire |
Souléymane Sy Savané is an actor who starred in the 2008 film Goodbye Solo.[1]
Born in Côte d'Ivoire, Savané moved to Paris and also worked as a flight attendant for Air Afrique. Air Afrique secured him a visa for travel to the US, and in 2000 Savané settled in New York, where he studied acting before being cast in Goodbye Solo.
In 2009 he appeared in the U.S. production of Ian Bruce's South African political crime drama Groundswell at the New Group @ Theatre Row in New York.[2]
He was nominated in 2009 for Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for the film Goodbye Solo, in which he played a taxi driver who aspired to being a flight attendant.
Souléymane Sy Savané will appear in the film Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler, directed by Marc Forster in the fall of 2011. He plays the character of Deng, a Sudanese rebel.