who is Farida Rahouadj, the last woman of his life?

This Tuesday, January 21, Bertrand Blier’s entourage announced very sad news: the death of the famous director at the age of 85. He leaves behind three children and his partner, the actress Farida Rahouadj.

He is one of the biggest names in French cinema. On Monday January 20, Bertrand Blier died at the age of 85, as his relatives revealed to AFP this Tuesday January 21. A heartbreak for the family and friends of the famous director behind cult films, Waltzes has Evening wearwith prestigious actors. The one who revealed that the reply “We’re all visiting. We land, we do a little sightseeing, and we leave!” you film Buffet froid was “his philosophy of life” was in a relationship with actress Farida Rahouadj. The one who celebrated her 59th birthday on April 23 spent her childhood in the small village of Saint-Chamas, near Salon-de-Provence, with seven brothers and sisters, before turning to her passion as a teenager – which was not yet cinema…

Indeed, it was first of all to punk-rock music that Farida Rahouadj devoted herself, notably singing alongside the future founders of the group Urgent. This led her to participate in the creation of the show Léo Ferré’s method : she then discovered a talent for the theater. With the help of her mentor, the tragedian Maria Casarès, she quickly won over the public. Making her film debut in the 1990s, she met Bertrand Blier in the early 2000s, thanks to the film Chops. Passionate about independent cinema, the committed actress has distinguished herself in very diverse roles, without forgetting her first passion: thus, in 2017, the actress praised for her role in The Savages sang The other Proustaccompanied by Vincent Leterme on the piano.

Bertrand Blier: who are his three children?

The director of Prepare your tissues was married for the first time at the age of 20. In his second marriage, the talented director whose films have marked French cultural heritage married Catherine Florin, the mother of his eldest daughter, Béatrice. During the 1990s, Bertrand Blier then had a wonderful story with the actress, painter and writer Anouk Grinberg, who made the news last spring with her strong statements. Together, the couple welcomed a little boy, Leonard. The director’s third child, born from his story with Farida Rahouadj, is a girl named Leïla. Fiercely determined to preserve the privacy of his offspring, Bertrand Blier has always avoided his children finding themselves in the spotlight.

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