A leading face of French fiction, Claire Keim is a popular actress appreciated by the public. If she made the hearts of many admirers beat during her career, her love life was filled with more or less publicized relationships.
Among them, Claire Keim was the companion of the actor Frédéric Diefenthal in the 1990s. It was on the set of the series The judge is a woman that the two stars met for the first time. He has played a major role of Lieutenant Colas for several seasons, she made an appearance in two episodes in 1994, then in 1999.
From this love at first sight born on a film set, the two lovebirds began a discreet idyll at the end of the decade. Claire Keim seems fulfilled in her career between music and fiction, while her companion Frédéric Diefenthal is a bankable actor thanks to the Taxi saga, directed by Luc Besson. For nearly three years, the couple maintained a romantic relationship out of sight, before ending their relationship in 2001.
Despite their separation, Claire Keim remained close to the accomplice of her ex-companion, actor Samy Naceri, hero of the saga. “We met in 1994, thanks to a collection broadcast on Arte”, she confided in Télé Star last January. “Then, we got closer, when I was Frédéric Diefenthal’s friend. With Marie, Samy’s friend, Fred and I, we formed a kind of quartet. We were stuck together all the time!”.
While her ex-companion found love in the arms of Gwendoline Hamon in the 2000s, the actress and friend of Samy Naceri found comfort with a famous champion.
In the 2000s, the singer Claire Keim met the former international of the France team, Bixente Lizarazu. It was in 2006 that the world champion and the actress began their relationship. Especially since love at first sight would have been immediate for the young woman, as she confided in 2011.
“Love feelings sometimes play tricks on some people, I know. I knew immediately that it was him… I had no doubts, at any time, ever…”, she admits to TV Major Channels. In 2008, Claire Keim and Bixente Lizarazu welcomed their daughter Uhaina (meaning “wave” in Basque). A happy event in the life of the singer, yet resigned to not wanting to start a family. “I had sworn that I would not have children. However, when my man arrived, the child was obvious”, she swore to our colleagues.
She is also the mother-in-law of Tximista (“lightning” in Basque), the son of her companion, born in 1995 from a previous union.
Fulfilled in love and in her career, the heroine of the series Aim for the heart can count on the support of her companion on a daily basis. “Bixente gives very good advice and I always ask him for his opinion, the same way he asks me mine. We talk a lot, we trust each other”, she admitted in 2008 to Paris Match. “We don’t do everything together, I think it’s important to keep your independence and to compartmentalize what affects professional life. I try to be a good teammate”.
However, the actress never intended to marry her spouse. An opinion that she shared with Télé Poche. “I have nothing for or against marriage, but it’s not because I love that I have to get married. what we want, that’s where we take the risk of losing it. Love is beautiful because it’s fragile”, explained in Télé Poche the star of the soap operas Infidèle and Harcelés in 2020 .
