Claudia Tagbo

Claudia Tagbo, born on 14 June 1973 in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire), is an Ivorian actress and humorist. She was born in Abidjan in 1973 and arrived at the age of 13 in Chanac, in Lozere, where she lived two years before leaving for Ales in the Gard until she was 18. From a very young age she discovered a passion for art in general and for theatre in particular. After obtaining a brevet d'etudes professionnelles (BEP) and a baccalaureat professionnel in accounting at the lycee Jean-Baptiste-Dumas d'Ales, she failed to enter the conservatoire de Montpellier. She moved to Paris to pursue studies in performing arts, where she earned a Maitrise Arts du spectacle - option theatre at the Universite Paris-VIII.

She worked, among others, with Stanislas Nordey, Elisabeth Rappeneau, Julien Leclercq and Olivier Dahan, and successfully launched into stand-up. In 2006 she began her career as a humorist in the Jamel Comedy Club created by Jamel Debbouze. Since November 2010 she has been part of the team of presenters alongside Arthur in the program Ce soir avec Arthur on Comedie! from November 2010 to July 2012, then on TF1 from May 2013. Since 2011 she has appeared in the humorous series United colors of Jean-Luc broadcast on Comedie!.

In 2013 she hosted Claudia Tagbo & co, a comedy gala broadcast on television, organized for the benefit of the association CeKeDuBonheur at the theatre des Folies Bergere. In film she appeared in Les Seigneurs (2012) by Olivier Dahan, Le Crocodile du Botswanga (2014) by Fabrice Eboue and Lionel Steketee, and Tout simplement noir (2020) by Jean-Pascal Zadi, among many others. On television she played the recurring character of lieutenant Martine Forest in R.I.S Police scientifique. In 2014, on the program A nous deux on France O, she spoke about her cancer.