Biography: Mati Diop

Birth Name: Mati Clémentine Diop

Birth Date: June 22, 1982

Birth Place: 12th arrondissement of Paris, France

Mati Diop (born June 22, 1982) is a French-Senegalese actress and film director. She directed the 2019 film Atlantics, for which she became the first black female director to be in contention for the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or. At Cannes, Atlantics won the Grand Prix.