Luther actress Nadia Farès dies aged 57 after being found unconscious in gym pool
French actress Nadia Farès, known internationally for her roles in The Crimson Rivers and Luther, has died at the age of 57, her family confirmed.
Farès passed away on Sunday, days after being found unconscious in a swimming pool at a gym in Paris.
According to her daughters, Cylia and Shana Chasman, the actress had suffered a cardiac arrest and had been in a coma since the incident.
‘It is with immense sadness that we announce the death this Friday of Nadia Farès,’ they said in a statement to Agence France-Presse.
‘France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother that we have just lost.’
In a deeply personal tribute shared on Instagram, her daughter Cylia wrote: ‘This is a heartbreak I will never get over. Every day I wake up and pray this is a nightmare and that you’re still with us. I know you fought your very hardest for your babies. Thank you.
‘Thank you for fighting, thank you for giving me life, thank you for every memory, thank you for the laughs, for the cries.’
Farès began her acting career in 1990 with a one-episode appearance in the long-running French television series Navarro.
She made her feature film debut two years later in My Wife’s Girlfriends, quickly establishing herself as a rising talent in French cinema.
Over the following decades, she built a varied career in film and television, appearing in projects such as Tell Me Yes… (1995), The Crimson Rivers (2000), War (2007), Marseille (2016–2018), Luther (2021), and Toujours possible (2025).
In 2002, Farès married producer Steve Chasman. The couple later relocated to the United States, and she stepped back from acting in 2009 to focus on family life.
More recently, Farès had been preparing for a new chapter in her career. She was set to begin filming her first feature as a director and screenwriter this September, marking a long-anticipated move behind the camera.
Her death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from across the French film industry.
Farès is survived by her husband and their daughters.
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