Overview
- Her daughters confirmed Friday to AFP that she died of cardiac arrest at 57, calling her “a great artist” and “above all a mother.”
- She was found unresponsive on April 11 at a private sports club on Rue Blanche in Paris, where witnesses performed CPR before firefighters took her to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and doctors placed her in an induced coma.
- French authorities have opened an inquiry into the circumstances, are examining CCTV from the sports complex, and report no sign of a criminal offense to date.
- Farès rose to prominence with The Crimson Rivers and later appeared in Netflix’s Marseille, and she had planned to make her directorial debut this year on an action comedy with Studio TF1.
- She had previously disclosed serious health issues, including brain surgery for an aneurysm in 2007 and three heart operations over four years.