FRENCH actress Nadia Farès has died at 57 after being found unconscious in a Paris gym swimming pool.
The star of the psychological thriller The Crimson River was pulled from the water at a luxury sports club in the Blanche and Montmartre district last weekend.
Her daughters revealed she drowned after losing consciousness while swimming laps and that efforts to revive her with CPR were unsuccessful.
Farès was rushed to Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, placed in a medically induced coma, but suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away.
Born in Morocco in 1968, she grew up in southern France and rose to fame in the 1990s with roles in TV and film.
Her breakthrough came with the thriller Elles n’oublient jamais and her career-defining role came in Mathieu Kassovitz’s Les Rivières pourpres, where she played twin sisters alongside Jean Reno.
On set, Reno once saved her from a serious accident when equipment broke.
Farès took a decade-long break from acting between 2007 and 2017, living in Los Angeles with her then-husband, Fast and Furious producer Steve Chasman.
After their divorce, she returned to France and landed roles in comedy and the Netflix series Marseille.
She was preparing to make her directorial debut with a comedy film later this year.
The actress had been open about her health struggles, including three heart surgeries in four years and brain surgery for an aneurysm in 2007.
She is survived by her daughters Cylia and Shana Chasman, who described her as “a great artist” and “a mother we have just lost.”
