Adama Niane, actor of “L’Affaire SK1” and “Plus belle la vie”, died at 56

The actor’s death was announced by director Olivier Abbou, who directed him on the film “Furie”, and confirmed to BFMTV.com by Adama Niane’s agent.

French actor Adama Niane, noted for his portrayal of serial killer Guy Georges in The SK1 Affair in 2015, died at the age of 56. His disappearance, announced Sunday by director Olivier Abbou on Instagram, was confirmed to BFMTV.com by his agent. The causes are, for the moment, not known.

The filmmaker directed Adama Niane on the occasion of two projects: the series maroni and the movie Furyreleased in 2019:

“We never left each other for 4 years, sharing intense human and artistic adventures at the end of the world, in Guyana, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and even in Lille (that is to say!). He was committed, lit, whole, talented, powerful. He was my hero, a friend, an accomplice.”

Seen in “Lupin”

Born in 1966 in Paris, Adama Niane studied dramatic arts and started his theater career in the 1980s. He then landed small roles in television series (Commissioner Mill, Julie Lescaut) and at the cinema (fuck meby Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 35 rhums by Claire Denis), before a recurring role in the daily series of France 3 More beautiful lifewhere he played Sébastien Sangha in 2009.

In 2015, he burst the screen by lending his features to Guy Georges, the serial killer who raged twenty years earlier in the east of Paris, in the film The SK1 affair by Frédéric Tellier. This is the beginning of a certain success on the big screen, with The West Indian gang (Jean-Claude Barny, 2016), Fury (Olivier Abbou, 2019), Congratulations (Bruno Merle, 2020). His last appearances were on television, in successful series: maroni, LupineNetflix box carried by Omar Sy, or even Alex Hugo.

He is a “huge actor alongside whom I had the chance and the pleasure of playing” tweeted Omar Sy this Sunday, “a man of rare benevolence… May his soul rest in peace.”

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