Clovis Kasanda is an actor known for "A Girl from Mogadishu" and "Stratum: The Prologue". He studied at Jacques Lecoq and Actors Way E.V.A theater schools in Paris. In spring 2016, he won the best actor award, at the Fitue international theatre festival of Essaouira, for his role as Don Jose. He has since performed the roles of Hamlet, Orsino, and acts in English, French, German and Swiss-German. Clovis is actually in the cast of Sankara the play London as Jean Lingani and Charles Taylor. Born in Kinshasa, DR Congo and growing up in Switzerland, he became a football goalkeeper and landed the 2nd place in Swiss junior championship. Clovis also served in the Swiss army and took on peacekeeping missions as an officer in Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina. But he thinks the emotions experienced on stage and on set are greater and so he was drawn to acting.
