French actress Nadia Fareswho is best known for her role in Crimson rivers The actress and her decades-long career in French and international cinema has died at the age of 57. She was found unconscious in a swimming pool in Paris on April 11, and died days later on April 17 after suffering a cardiac arrest after falling into a coma.
Her daughters said in a statement to Agence France-Presse: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Nadia Fares this Friday.” “France has lost a great artist, but for us, she is above all the mother we have just lost.”
Learn more about it below.
I was born in Marrakesh and grew up in France
Fares was born in Marrakesh, Morocco, on December 20, 1968, and moved to France at an early age, where she grew up. She later moved to Paris to pursue acting, and began her career in the early 1990s.
She was a French actress with an international career
Fares has worked in film and television for more than three decades, starting with her debut in 1992 My wife’s friends. Her fame rose with Crimson rivers He continued to appear in international projects such as war side by side Jet Li and Jason StathamAnd also a horror movie Storm warning. She also starred in the Netflix series Marseille From 2016 to 2018.
She married producer Steve Chasman
Fares married an American film producer Steve Chasman In 2002, they later moved to the United States during their marriage. The couple separated in 2022, and she later returned to live in France.
She had two daughters, Celia and Shanna
Fares is a mother of two daughters. Celia and ShanaWho mourned her after her death.
Celia shared a tribute to her mother on Instagram, writing: “This is a heartbreak I will never get over. Every day I wake up and pray that this is a nightmare and that you are still with us. I know you fought so hard for your children. Thank you. Thank you for fighting, thank you for giving me life, thank you for every memory, thank you for the laughs and screams.”
I have faced serious health challenges over the years
Faris has been candid about her health struggles, revealing that she underwent brain surgery in 2007 for a dangerous aneurysm, and later underwent three heart surgeries in the space of four years. She died on April 17, 2026, after suffering a heart attack following a swimming pool accident in Paris that left her in a coma for several days.
