Fatiha Berber


Fatiha Berber was an Algerian actress for theater, cinema and television, whose real name was Fatiha Blal.

Life

Fatiha Berber was born in the Casbah of Algiers. Her family came from Legata in the Boumerdès Province of Northern Algeria.
In the late 1950s she sang with the orchestra of Meriem Fekkaï, before studying drama at the Conservatory of Algiers. The director Mustapha Gribi gave her her first role, in an adaptation of Molière, Les femmes savantes. She took part in Algeria's National Liberation struggle.

Death

She died on 16 January 2015 in Paris, following a heart attack.

Works

Films

Hassan Taxi, dir. Mohamed Slim Riad, 1982Aila Ki Nass, dir. Amar Tribeche, 1990Le Démon au féminin, dir. Hafsa Zinaï Koudil, 1994Rai, dir. Thomas Gilou, 1995Prima del tramonto, dir. Stefano Incerti, 1999Aïd el-Kébir, dir. Karin Albou, 1999

Television series

El Masir El la'ib, 2004El Badra, 2008–10