Overview
- Algerian public television announced that Biyouna, born Baya Bouzar, died Tuesday in Algiers after an illness at the age of 73.
- Born in 1952 in Algiers’ Belouizdad district, she became a household name after a 1973 television serial.
- Across more than five decades, she worked in Algerian hits and later French productions, including La Source des Femmes and Le Flic de Belleville.
- She remained in Algeria through the 1990s violence before moving to France in 1999 to collaborate with director Nadir Moknèche on films such as Le Harem de Madame Osmane and Délice Paloma.
- Local press reported she had battled cancer since 2016 and was recently treated in the pneumology unit at Beni Messous hospital, details not included in the official announcement.