Diaryatou DAFF (Igé, in BIUTIFUL, by Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2009) was born on August 20, 1978 in the small village of Barkjedi near Louga (Senegal), a countryside region 200km northeast of Dakar. Her father Elhadji Seydou, a farmer, and mother Fatou Coundoul have given her six brothers and six sisters. Diaryatou finished her studies at the Richard Toll School and moved from the countryside to Dakar to live with her grandmother. In the city, she met her first husband and from this union was born her oldest son Ousseynou, who lives and studies in Senegal. In 2007 she married a young man, Omar, with whom she has a son called Cheikh Ibrahima. She made her first acting appearance in "Biutiful" by Alejandro González Iñárritu, after winning the role of IGE on top of 3.000 African candidates. She now lives in Madrid with her youngest son.