Happy birthday to Rachida Brakni! The movie actress Neuilly his mother ! and A matter of state celebrates its 45th candle on February 15. For the occasion, there is no doubt that her loved ones will take great care of her. She shares her life with Eric Cantona, father of her two children. An offspring to whom she would like to pass on certain things that are close to her heart, such as the practice of Arabic. A case not won in advance!
Indeed, interviewed in June 2021 by the magazine Madame FigaroRachida Brakni was then promoting the film sisters directed by Yamina Benguigui. And she then evoked her own childhood, she who was born in Paris to Algerian immigrant parents. From this double culture, she notably kept the taste for words, in the two languages of her life. “At home, Rachida Brakni takes refuge in books and this French language, which, as the poet Kateb Yacine claims, is our only spoils of war. But she still continues today to respond to hers in Arabic“, could we discover. And the actress would like this language that she learned as a child, to be transmitted to her clan from now on.My children, who are so good at languages, don’t speak it, and I annoy them with it, much to my husband’s dismay. But I have not said my last word…“, confided Rachida Brakni.
The actress of the series Black Baron, married to Eric Cantona since 2007, is the mother of two children. With her husband, ex-star footballer turned actor and met on the set of The Overeater, she first had Emir (born in 2009) then Selma (born in 2013). The couple tries to lead a quiet life, far from the worldliness of show business, despite their notoriety. “We are quite family. I take my kids to school and pick them up or my wife does, or we go together. It went well. A family life like everyone else. Except we’re lucky not to go to the factory“, confided the ex-sportsman to the newspaper The Parisian in 2015.