Nadia Farès died this Friday, her daughters told AFP. She was 57 years old. The actress was placed in an artificial coma after being found unconscious in a swimming pool in the 9th arrondissement of Paris on Sunday April 12. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death this Friday of Nadia Farès. France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother that we have just lost,” wrote Cylia and Shana Chasman.
Daughter of a Moroccan and an Armenian, Nadia Farès was born in December 1968 in Marrakech (Morocco) before coming to live in France, in Nice, with her parents. Once settled in Paris, she met a film agent who offered her the opportunity to cast for the film. Funny place for a meeting. She was not selected, but the following audition, for an episode of the series Navarroallowed him to make his first appearance on screen in 1993.
She landed her first film role a few months later. In the movie They never forget by Christopher Frank, she shares the bill with Thierry Lhermitte and Marushka Detmers. About this experience, she confides to the podcast “On the microphone with Johanna Cohen” : “It was above all a revelation. I realized how much I loved this job. To enter into the lives of such strong characters is an extraordinary privilege. »
Priority to family
Her meeting with Bernie Bonvoisin was decisive: she filmed under his direction The demons of Jesus et Big mouthswhich were released in 1997 and 1998 respectively. But it is above all his performance in the thriller The Purple Riversin 2000, which brought him his greatest notoriety. His performance in the action film Wasp Nest by Florent-Emilio Siri in 2002 also left its mark.
But, during the 2000s, Nadia Farès put her career on hold. She met Steve Chasman, an American producer and settled in Los Angeles. The couple have two children, Shana, born in 2002 and Cylia, in 2005. From then on, his private life became his priority. “Starting a family was very important to me. I needed to dedicate myself to it full time,” she tells TV Star in 2021, adding that “the best film in the world could not have [la] convince”, to return to the film sets.
She has undergone several heart operations
We had to wait until 2016 for her to return to the screen. In this case in the Netflix series Marseille where for two seasons she played Vanessa d’Abrantes, the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council. She returned to acting for the cinema, but it was mainly in series that she then distinguished herself: Red Shadows in 2019, The Promise et Luther in 2021…
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In January 2026, at Galashe announced that she was working on “an action comedy with Studios TF1”. She revealed to the magazine that she had undergone “three heart operations” and had brain surgery in 2007, “because of an aneurysm that was far from small. A time bomb that needed to be addressed urgently. » And to conclude: “These are moments when you question yourself and when you understand that you have to live this life intensely. […] We are born to learn to live, to grow old and to be ready to leave: the mission is simple, but it is a lifelong job. »
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