Nadia Samir

Nadia Samir (in Arabic: نادية سمير), real name Fatma Zodmi, is a French-Algerian announcer and actress, born in Chlef, Algeria on April 12, 1947 and died in Paris on May 2, 2011 from cancer. Nadia Samir, after her training as an actress, played in Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1970) by Jacques Poitrenaud with Georges Moustaki. She then had small roles in cinema, notably opposite Alain Delon in La Race des Seigneurs (1973) by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Simone Signoret in La Vie Devant Soi (1977) by Moshé Mizrahi or Micheline Presle in Quelques Nouvelles (1977) by Jacques Davila, as well as in TV films or soap operas. Algerian director Sid Ali Mazif offered her the lead role in Leïla et les Autres (…