Nadia Farès died on Sunday at 57, one week after she was found unconscious in a swimming pool in Paris and was left in a coma following cardiac arrest. Her daughters, Cylia and Shana Chasman, announced the death in a statement.
“It is with immense sadness that we announce the death this Friday of Nadia Farès,” they said. “France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother that we have just lost.” Cylia Chasman added in a separate message that her mother’s death was “a heartbreak I will never get over,” saying she prayed each day that it was a nightmare and thanking her for fighting for her children and for their memories.
Farès was known to French audiences for The Crimson Rivers and built a screen career that stretched from television to features. She began acting in 1990 with a one-episode appearance in Navarro and made her feature debut in My Wife’s Girlfriends in 1992. Her credits also included Tell Me Yes…, War, Marseille, Luther and Toujours possible.
By 2002, Farès had married producer Steve Chasman, and in 2009 she stepped away from acting when the couple moved to the United States. Even after that break, she remained attached to the screen business and was preparing to return in a different role. She was set to film her first feature as a director and screenwriter in September.
In a January profile with Gala, Farès said she had found “a great team” and was working on an action comedy with Studios TF1. That project was to be her next major step, after a career that had already moved from Navarro to The Crimson Rivers and across film and television for more than three decades.
The nadia fares cause of death is now clear: Farès died after the swimming pool incident last week, while still in a coma from cardiac arrest. For her family, the loss closed not just a public career but a private fight that ended before her planned return behind the camera in September.
