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 (1977), which evokes the emancipation of women in the Maghreb.

She gave birth to a daughter named Roxane in 1984.

Nadia Samir became a presenter on TF1 for seven years, from 1985 to 1992, alongside Il y était Évelyne Dhéliat, Denise Fabre, Fabienne Égal. More than just a cathode-ray pass, she was above all the first presenter of Maghreb origin to appear on TF1 in the 80s, before their definitive disappearance in 1992.

"Nadia Samir was the first Franco-Maghreb presenter in a French audio-visual landscape that had until then been monochrome. Star announcer of TF1, Nadia Samir has marked our collective unconscious, so much has her face been imprinted during these long years in our imagination, thus giving a face to diversity, expected and hoped for by millions of French people. In her own way, she has represented another image of the open, modern and committed Maghrebi woman far from the stereotypes in which immigrant women have too often been locked up. " - Fadila Mehal, President and Founder of Marianne de la diversité.