Filip Nikolic | |
Birth Date: | 1 September 1974 |
Birth Place: | Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Occupation: | Singer, songwriter, actor |
Yearsactive: | 1988–2009 |
Filip Nikolic (Serbian: Филип Николић, Filip Nikolić; 1 September 1974 – 16 September 2009) was a French-Serbian actor and singer,[1] [2] best known as the lead of the French band 2Be3.
Born at Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, he was raised with two siblings in Longjumeau, a suburb of Paris.
Filip was a French singer, but he also featured in acting roles in a TV shows such as Navarro and Pour être libre, a series centred on 2Be3. He also appeared in the US movie Simon Sez with Dennis Rodman in 1999. He was also runner-up in the French version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2006.
He died on 16 September 2009,[3] aged 35, reportedly while preparing a solo album. According to the first reports the cause of the death was a heart attack due to a combination of pills he used to get to sleep.[4]