Farida Khelfa, born May 23, 1960 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, is an actress, documentary filmmaker and former Franco-Algerian model. Accustomed to the Palace nights in the early 1980s, then to the Bains Douches, she became a model thanks to the couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier until 1993, worked with Azzedine Alaïa and Jean-Paul Goude, then also became an actress for five years until in 1990, when it suspended its cinematographic activities to resume them sixteen years later. She is also active on television after the 2000s, whether in TV films, or for the production of reports.