The actress Nadia Farès died on April 17, 2026 at the age of 57, following an accident in a swimming pool on April 11. His daughters announced the sad news, relayed by The Parisian. The artist was particularly known for her roles in Les Rivières pourpres, Nest of wasps and the Marseille series.

The beginnings

Nadia Farès took her first steps on screen in the TV film L’Exil in 1991, then made her film debut in 1992 in the comedy Les Amis de ma femme by Didier Van Cauwelaert. But it was in They Never Forget by Christopher Frank that Nadia Farès came to the attention of the general public in 1994. She played the poisonous Angela and harassed Thierry Lhermitte.

The following year, the young actress starred in the Italian drama Poliziottithen turns for Alexandre Arcady in Tell me yes. Moving easily from dramatic roles to lighter appearances, Nadia Farès accompanies the prestigious cast of Men, Women: Instructions for Use by Claude Lelouch.

In 1997 she filmed Les Demons de Jesus by Bernie Bonvoisin, where she imposed her tough-guy image in the role of Marie, the daughter of the family. Two years later, the director called on the actress again for Les Grandes Bouches.

The revelation in Purple Rivers

A strong character that Nadia Farès will have the opportunity to rediscover after a detour through the cartoon Le Chateau des Singes for which she lends her voice. In 2000, she was the enigmatic Fanny of the thriller The Purple Rivers signed Mathieu Kassovitz.

Strong and determined, she established herself as a woman of action, a trend that is confirmed Wasp nest. In 2004, Nadia Farès played a manipulative wife fascinated by crime in a black comedy, For the Pleasure.

Nadia Farès remains in the comedy register with L’Ex femme de ma vie, in which she plays a dynamic press officer who flourishes alongside Thierry Lhermitte. We then see her in the horrific Insane, the muscular Rogue the Last Stand as well as the series The Tiger Empire and Revivre.

Taking a break from 2009 to 2015, Nadia returns to the forefront playing one of the main characters in the series Marseillethat of Vanessa d’Abrantes, a powerful woman ready to do anything to achieve her goals.

Favoring the small screen, she then found notable roles in Les Ombres Rouges and La Promesse. Not forgetting the cinema, she also took part in Lucky Day, Connectés and Haters. Recently, we could see her in The Whistlers and Always possible.

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The actress Nadia Farès, found unconscious in a Parisian swimming pool less than a week ago and since plunged into a coma, died on Friday April 17, at the age of 57, her daughters announced.

“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 in a message sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Nadia Farès died at La Pitié Salpêtrière, where she was hospitalized, Sunday April 12, after being brought to the surface, unconscious, from a swimming pool at a private club on rue Blanche, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. “Observed by several people in a yoga position at the bottom of the water”, she was taken care of “first by the firefighters then taken to the hospital”, explained the prosecution. An investigation was opened but no offense has been noted at this stage.

Brain surgery in 2007

Nadia Farès was due to shoot her first feature film as screenwriter and director next September. “Through hard work, questioning and persistence, I found a great team, we are working together on an action comedy with TF1 Studios,” she explained in a last interview published by Gala in January.

She also revealed that she had undergone “brain surgery in 2007, due to an aneurysm that was far from small”. “A time bomb that needed to be addressed urgently. And in four years, I had three heart operations,” added the woman who said she swims four times a week.

Born in 1968 in Marrakech, Morocco, Nadia Farès grew up in Nice before moving to Paris to try an artistic career. She started in cinema in the 1990s, playing for renowned directors such as Alexandre Arcady, Claude Lelouch and Bernie Bonvoisin.

She finally established herself in the eyes of the general public in 2001 thanks to her role in Les Rivières pourpres by Mathieu Kassovitz, alongside Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel. This role opened the doors to the international scene for her and she continued her career in a few Anglo-Saxon action films (Rogue: The Last Stand or Insane) while playing in French films like Wasp’s Nest or The Ex-Woman of My Life by Josiane Balasko.

A career on hiatus before a return in 2016

Then she decided to put her career on hold and lived in the United States with American producer Steve Chasman. “By following my husband to Los Angeles, I really needed to build a family of my own, to devote all my time to it,” Nadia Farès told Gala.

They separated four years ago and she returned to live in France. “I have always followed my heart. To the detriment of a career, certainly,” said the actress.

She made a professional return in 2016, for the Netflix series Marseille, in which she played the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council alongside Gérard Depardieu and Benoît Magimel. She then rather starred in series, TV films or films intended for streaming platforms.

“Of course, as an actress, I would like to film more, but I consider myself extremely privileged in many ways, so I have no right to complain, to whine,” she confided again last January.

The World with AFP

Sentences ranging from ten months suspended to four years in prison for “hotel rats”. The magistrates of the 14th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court delivered their judgment this afternoon in the trial of the robbers of luxury hotels in Paris and the south of France. Although the seven defendants were acquitted of the charge of criminal conspiracy, they were all found guilty of theft during meetings or complicity.

Several thefts in the 8th arrondissement

Belkheir Z., suspected of being the mastermind of the burglaries, received the heaviest sentence in the case: 4 years’ imprisonment with continued detention accompanied by a fine of 10,000 euros.

All his accomplices were sentenced to prison, sometimes to be carried out under an electronic bracelet, with the exception of two of them, sentenced to suspended prison sentences.

The courts accused them all of all or part of a series of thefts that occurred in hotels in Paris, particularly in the 8th arrondissement, and on the Côte d’Azur, between August 2024 and February 2025. Around twenty thefts were targeted by the procedure. Their loot? Objects (watches, bags, etc.) mainly from luxury brands. Some of the defendants had been filmed and identified using video surveillance, entering or attempting to enter rooms in the hotels concerned. This did not prevent them from denying any involvement in the thefts. “We went in to steal, but we didn’t touch anything,” said one of them at the hearing, for example, recognizing his presence, and his presence only, at the scene of the thefts.

There are anecdotes from the set that make you smile long after you hear them. The one that Maïtena Biraben tells about Johnny Hallyday is definitely one of them. The former host of Supplement on Canal+ is the guest of Éric Dussart and Jade this Saturday, April 18 from 11:30 a.m. in On refait la télé on RTL.

In an exclusive extract previewed by Télé-Loisirs, she agreed to return with frankness, and a lot of humor, to the interview which undoubtedly had the most impact on her during her career.

Not because it had gone badly, but precisely because it had almost not gone well at all. The guest in question? The greatest French rocker, Johnny Hallyday. And the portrait she paints of it is as tender as it is hilarious.

A giant with half-closed eyes, Maïtena Biraben’s memory of Johnny Hallyday

Indeed, when Éric Dussart asks her which personality deserved the title of worst guest, the host does not hesitate for a single second: “Johnny Hallyday! Ah, but the thing it was. He was extraordinary,” she exclaims in this excerpt. The tone is set: this is not a settling of scores, but a delicious memory, told with the kindness of someone who has learned to accept people as they are.

Because if Maïtena Biraben describes this interview as “the moment of her life”, she recognizes that Johnny Hallyday was clearly not in the same state of mind. “He did 600,000 interviews. He arrives, he’s like that, his eyes half-closed, but really more than half-closed. He waits, he responds automatically,” she says, precisely mimicking the posture of a man who has given so many interviews that he now goes through them as if on autopilot.

However, one moment changed everything. A question from the host, the content of which she does not reveal, was enough to make the singer react. “And then his blue eye opened. There, all of a sudden you say to yourself ‘he’s actually listening to me’. There he listens to me. And right after that it closes again,” she confides with a burst of laughter before concluding: “It’s horrible. » An image that is both funny and poignant, which says a lot about what the media exercise can represent for a star of this stature, solicited for decades by all the media in the world.

A presenter at ease everywhere, except in ordinary life

However, no resentment on the part of Maïtena Biraben. “I accept people as they are. I accept life with what it brings,” she says simply. A philosophy that has been forged over the course of an atypical career and a demanding personal path. The host reveals in fact that she has never had stage fright on set, nor fear of silence, two phenomena which nevertheless paralyze many of her colleagues. “I have always been more comfortable on a TV set than anywhere in life,” she confides lucidly.

Because Maïtena Biraben publicly shared, in a video broadcast by Mesdames Média, that she was diagnosed with autism at the age of 57. “I’ve been trying to understand what’s wrong with me for 28 years now,” she explained at the time. A diagnosis received like “a bus in the face”, she says, unexpectedly violent despite the relief it may have brought.

Far from apologizing for it, she made it a key to understanding her professional trajectory: “I believe that it is precisely because I am, that I was able to have the career that I did, because I think that I asked the questions that others did not ask themselves. » The television set, a codified and predictable setting, was for her “the opposite of life”, and therefore, paradoxically, the place where she felt most like herself.

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وسوف يغادر تود ليونز منصبه في نهاية مايو، حسبما قال رئيسه وزير الأمن الداخلي عبر منصة إكس.

وأشاد مولين في منشور عبر منصة إكس، بليونز لمساعدة ترامب في التخلص من « القتلة والمغتصبين ومشتهيي الأطفال والإرهابيين وأفراد العصابات من المناطق الأميركية”.

المنشور: أمنا »، فيما لم يتم الإفصاح عن سبب علني لاستقالة ليونز.

2025 نحو 20 سنة في الخدمة مع الوكالة.

وكانت الوكالة واجهت موجة من الانتقاد بشأن عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة في المدن الأميركية بما في ذلك شيكاغو ومينيابوليس حيث جرى إرسال عملاء اتحاديين مقنعين لاستهداف المهاجرين.

واشتدت الاحتجاجات بعدما قتل عملاء الهجرة الاتحاديين بالرصاص شخصين في واقعتين منفصلتين في مينيابوليس في يناير مما أثار المظاهرات الواسعة النطاق وجدد التدقيق ضد أساليب وكالة إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة والجمارك.

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