Naky Sy Savané (born 1970) is a film, television, and stage actress from Côte d'Ivoire.

The granddaughter of an imam, Naky Sy Savané became an actress despite conservative Muslim prejudice against the profession.

[1][2] She played numerous stage roles, including in Jean Racine's Britannicus and the title role in Jean Anouilh's Antigone.

[4] For her performance in Au Nom du Christ (1993), she was awarded Best Actress at the 1994 Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga.

[5] In Fanta Régina Nacro's La Nuit de la vérité (2004), she plays Emma, the wife of the president of a fictional country in the midst of a civil war who loses her young son in a massacre.