The 2004 movie "The Terminal" was based on the life of a refugee who lived in the airport for 18 years.
Sky News reported that a Paris airport authority official said that Nasseri had a heart attack at the airport.
The medical team at the airport was unable to save him. He was pronounced dead by the airport's spokesman.
The departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport was home to Nasseri from 1988 until July 2006 because he lacked residency papers.
When he got refugee papers, he refused to sign them. He stayed on a red plastic bench in the airport until he was hospitalized.
He was staying at a homeless shelter in Paris after he was hospitalized.
The Associated Press said he lived in the airport before he died.
Even if we would have preferred him to find a real shelter, he was looked after by the staff for many years at the airport.
Sky News reported that an airport doctor said that years of living in a windowless space had affected his physical and mental health.
The airport did not reply immediately.
The New York Times reported in 2003 that Spielberg bought the rights to the life story for $250,000.
The film "The Terminal" was produced by Steven Spielberg and starred Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci.
A fictional Eastern European man was stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy airport after being denied entry to the US due to political reasons.
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