Fatiha Berber (1945–2015) 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., Huff Post, 16 January 2015 Her family came from Legata in the Boumerdès Province of Northern Algeria.Yacine Idjer, Fatiha Berber: Une étoile s'est éteinte, DjaZairess, 17 January 2015.

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, 1982 Aila Ki Nass, dir. Amar Tribeche, 1990 Le Démon au féminin [Woman as the Devil], dir. Hafsa Zinaï Koudil, 1994 Rai, dir. Thomas Gilou, 1995 Prima del tramonto [Before Sunset], dir. Stefano Incerti, 1999 Aïd el-Kébir, dir. Karin Albou, 1999

Television series El Masir [Destiny] El la'ib [The Player], 2004 El Badra [The Seed], 2008–10

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