Nadia Farès Passes Away: Daughters Request White Flowers at Funeral, Investigation Explores Medical Cause in Drowning Case

The funeral of French actress Nadia Farès will take place on Friday, April 24, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. At Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre Church in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, following her death one week earlier after being found unconscious in a swimming pool.

Farès, who was 57, passed away on Friday, April 17, 2026, at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris after several days in a coma. She had been admitted to the hospital on April 12 following a medical incident at the pool of a private club on Rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of the city.

Her two daughters, Shana and Cylia Chasman, announced her death and shared heartfelt tributes on social media. Shana wrote on Instagram: “I’m having a hard time believing it, but this is the most real thing I’ve ever experienced. I never imagined you’d leave so soon. I thought we had more time.”

The family has requested that attendees of the funeral bring white flowers as a final tribute to the actress. This detail was confirmed in notices published by the family in Le Monde and Le Figaro.

Guillaume Canet, who worked with Farès on various projects, also paid tribute to her on Instagram, recalling their collaborations and personal moments: “Our magnificent conversations… Our fits of laughter… Your valuable advice… Your playlists of music that nourished many of my films! Magical and unforgettable moments! We were supposed to meet these days. I find it so hard to believe this will never happen again… I will keep you forever in my heart!”

Farès rose to prominence in 2000 with her role in Mathieu Kassovitz’s Les Rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers), where she starred alongside Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel. She later appeared in the 2007 action film War with Jason Statham and Jet Li, and in the horror film Storm Warning.

In television, she portrayed Vanessa d’Abrantes opposite Gérard Depardieu in Netflix’s first French-language original series, Marseille, which aired for two seasons from 2016 to 2018 before its cancellation.

At the time of her death, Farès was preparing to begin shooting her first feature film as a screenwriter and director, a project scheduled to start in September 2026.

Farès had been open about her health struggles in past interviews, revealing that she underwent brain surgery in 2007 to treat an aneurysm and had experienced three heart operations over a four-year period.