‘Luther’ star Nadia Farès dead aged 57 a week after being found unconscious in swimming pool
The French actor, Nadia Farès, has passed away at the age of 57, a week after she was found unconscious in the swimming pool of a private gym in Paris.
The Luther star had been in a coma since the incident, which took place on April 11th. After Farès suddenly lost consciousness while swimming, a swimmer uncovered her body and attempted to revive her through CPR.
Her daughters broke the news on April 17th that Farès never regained consciousness after being put into a medically induced coma.
“It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of Nadia Fares this Friday,” her daughters wrote. “France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother we have just lost.”
The sisters then requested “respect and discretion” for a period of mourning for their beloved mother.
Separately, her daughter Cylia Chasman wrote a tribute to her “best friend” on social media. She shared, in part, “On Saturday, we were on the phone and you told me you weren’t afraid of death, and my response was that I was afraid of your death, and the next day the universe decided it was time for you. As much as it pains me it brings me some comfort knowing you weren’t afraid. I know you tried your best to stay.”
Farès caught her big break at the turn of the millennium, when she starred in a breakthrough role in Mathieu Kassovitz’s Les Rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers), based on the novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé.
She went on to appear in several French films, such as Claude Lelouch’s Hommes, Femmes: Mode D’emploi and Christopher Frank’s Elles N’oublient Jamais.
Throughout her life, Farès had several brushes with death; she underwent brain surgery in 2007 due to an aneurysm that was “far from small”. She also had three heart operations in four years.
In n 2016, she performed in the first French-speaking Netflix series, Marseille, before appearing in several TV dramas such as Les Ombres rouges, La Promesse, and Luther, as well as the film On the Line in 2022.
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