# Sofia Essaïdi

Sofia Essaïdi (Arabic: صوفيا السعيدي; born 6 August 1984) is a French-Moroccan singer and actress. She was born in Casablanca, to a Moroccan father, Lhabib Essaïdi, and a French mother, Martine Adeline Gardelle.

## Career

From 30 August to 13 December 2003, she participated in the show Star Academy France's third season, becoming a semi-finalist. She eventually finished second to Elodie Frégé.
From 12 March to 7 August 2004, she participated in the Star Academy tour, going to Morocco, and Papeete, Tahiti, where she celebrated her 20th birthday. She released her first album called Mon cabaret. Later, she starred in the musical Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte choreographed by Kamel Ouali which opened in "le Palais des Sports" in Paris on 29 January 2009.

## Discography
### Album

| Year | Information | Charts position | Charts position | Charts position |
| Year | Information | FR | SWI | BEL |
| 2005 | Mon cabaret Studio album Released: 22 August 2005 Format: CD, digital download | 41 | 100 | 46 |
| 2008 | Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte Soundtrack Released : 25 August 2008 | 11 | 25 | 32 |

### Singles

| Year | Title | Charts position | Charts position | Charts position | Album |
| Year | Title | FR | SWI | BEL | Album |
| 2004 | "Roxanne" | 20 | 34 | 13 | Mon Cabaret |
| 2005 | "Mon cabaret" | – | – | – | Mon Cabaret |
| 2005 | "Après l'amour" (Digital single only) | – | – | – | Mon Cabaret |
| 2008 | "Femme d'aujourd'hui" (Musical comedy Cléopâtre) | 8 | 94 | 27 | Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte |
| 2008 | "Une autre vie" (& Florian Etienne) (Musical comedy Cléopâtre) | – | – | – | Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte |
| 2009 | "L'accord" (& Christopher Stills) (Musical comedy Cléopâtre) | 7 | – | – | Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte |
| 2009 | "Bien après l'au-delà" (Musical comedy Cléopâtre) | – | – | – |

### Guest Vocals

* 2004 "Et si tu n'existais pas" (with Toto Cutugno)
* 2007 "Il n'y a plus d'après" (with Tomuya)
* 2010 "If" (As one of the artists of Collect If Aides 25 Ans)
* 2010 "La voix de l'enfant" (with Natasha St Pier & Bruno Solo)

## Awards

* 2009 – NRJ Music Awards : Francophone Group/Duo of the Year ( She was one of the artists who starred in the musical Cléopâtre)
* 2010 – NRJ Music Awards : Francophone Female Artist of the Year
* 2010 – Les jeunes talents de l'année: On 12 February 2010 she won Best Actress at Les jeunes talents de l'année 2009 (Young Talents of the Year 2009)

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2005 | Iznogoud | Belbeth | Patrick Braoudé | |
| 2009–2012 | Aïcha | Aïcha | Yamina Benguigui | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2012 | La clinique de l'amour! | Jennifer Gomez | Artus de Penguern & Gábor Rassov | |
| 2014 | Mea Culpa | Myriam | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2015 | Up & Down | Leïla | Ernesto Oña | TV movie |
| 2017 | Murders in Auvergne | Aurélie Lefaivre | Thierry Binisti | TV movie |
| 2018 | Insoupçonnable | Leila Baktiar | Christophe Lamotte & Frédéric Garson | TV series (9 episodes) |
| 2019 | Kepler(s) | Alice Hadad | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2020 | La Promesse | Sarah Castaing | Anne Landois | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2022 | Nostalgia | Arlette | Mario Martone | |
| 2022 | Women at War | Caroline DeWitt | Alexandre Laurent | TV mini-series (8 episodes) |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Location | Notes |
| 2009–2010 | Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte | Cleopatra | Palais des Sports | National / Belgium / Switzerland Tour |
| 2018–2019 | Chicago | Velma Kelly | Théâtre Mogador | First French-language production |