Hollywood has misplaced a rising star.
Charlbi Dean — a mannequin and actress who stars within the upcoming movie Triangle of Unhappiness, which gained the Cannes Movie Competition’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or, this yr — handed away on Monday in New York Metropolis.
She was 32 years previous.
Dean’s representatives mentioned on Tuesday that died from an surprising sickness.
Dean additionally had a recurring function because the murderer Syonide on the DC Comics tv sequence Black Lightning, which aired on the CW from 2018 to 2021.
The South African-born actress was a frequent consumer of social media… together with her remaining put up uploaded a number of days in the past.
Dean typically posted a sequence {of professional} modeling footage on Instagram, as nicely.
“Relaxation in Peace lovely. You didn’t know me however you have been my massive function mannequin. Thanks for uplifting me,” wrote one commenter after this unhappy information went viral.
Dean, who began modeling as a toddler and who made plenty of appearances on style runways and journal covers within the a long time that adopted, survived a near-fatal automotive crash in 2009.
In Triangle of Unhappiness (which is ready for launch within the U.S. on October 7), Dean portrays a mannequin named Yaya.
She’s a wealthy visitor invited for a luxurious cruise on a brilliant yacht, the place issues go very, very unsuitable.
The film premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition in Might.
The actress acknowledged the movie’s Cannes huge win on Instagram earlier this yr, writing on the time:
“Congratulations our household we did it!!! @ruben_ostlund you’re the GOAT I’m eternally grateful for you for trusting me to be aside of your genius and my expensive @sinaostlund.
“Can’t imagine I had the very best yr making this throughout one of many hardest instances in my life. Right here’s some pics of the yr in Sweden and Greece in the course of the pandemic.
“Perpetually and at all times our @triangleofsadness household.”
The late 32-year previous made her appearing debut within the 2010 movie Spud,” an adaptation of a well-liked South African novel a few boys’ boarding faculty starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese.
She reprised her function in a 2013 sequel.
Wrote one other fan upon studying Lifeless had died:
“Been following your profession since I used to be a teen and would see you within the native South African style magazines. So unhappy to see you go so quickly. Life typically doesn’t make sense.
“Relaxation in peace.”
