French actor Adama Niane reportedly died on January 29, 2023 in France. The cause of his death has not yet been revealed. Niane was 56.
Niane’s death was announced on Twitter by Omar Sy, who co-starred with him in the Netflix series Lupin.
“I extend my deep condolences to the loved ones of Adama Niane, an immense actor alongside whom I had the chance and the pleasure of playing”. “A man of rare benevolence… May his soul rest in peace”, Sy wrote.
Get In film director Olivier Abbou also shared the news of the actor’s death on Instagram describing him as a “hero.”
“It is with immense sadness that I learned of the passing of Adam Niane, with whom I had the pleasure of working on the 2 seasons of Maroni and Fury,” Abbou posted in French on Instagram. “We haven’t left each other for 4 years, sharing intense human and artistic adventures at the end of the world, Guyana, St Pierre and Miquelon and even Lille. “He was engaged, lit, whole, talented, powerful. He was my hero, a friend, and an accomplice. Go in peace.”
Niane was born in Paris on August 23, 1966. He played assassin and ex-convict Léonard Kone in the hit Netflix series Lupin, which launched in 2021.
Lupin became the first French series to land on Netflix’s Top 10 list, hitting the number one spot in countries such as Spain, Poland, and Brazil.
He also starred in Alex Hugo (2021), Maroni (2018-2021), Sam (2019-2021), Inhuman Resources (2020), Prise au piège (2019), Troubled Waters (2019) and La Mante (2017), Felicità (2020), The Bare Necessity (2019), Gang of the Caribbean (2016), SK1 (2014) and Baise-moi (2000), and others.
His last work was in the series L’île aux 30 cercueils in 2022 where he played Yannick Lantry.