South African actress and model Charlbi Dean, character in the film Without Filter, Palme d’or at Cannes this year, died Monday in New York at the age of 32, announced a spokeswoman confirming information of the specialized press. “It’s appalling,” a representative of the actress replied to AFP by email, adding “confirm information from TMZ“, the American media of reference on celebrities. According to this site and the media Deadline, Charlbi Dean died “suddenly” Monday in a New York hospital. No information was available on the causes of her death, in particular on a possible illness against which she would have fought. , obsessed with her image and her career, who is offered a luxury cruise with her boyfriend, also a model. Five years after The Square, Ruben Östlund won a second Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in May with this satire of the super-rich and luxury. According to the specialized press, Charlbi Dean Kriek was born on February 5, 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa, and started modeling at the age of 6, then a career on the screens from the age of 20 with two first South African films: Spud in 2010 and Spud 2 in 2013, with John Cleese in particular. We also saw her in 2017 in an American horror film, Don’t Sleep, and, the following year, in Interview with God, before taking on the role of Syonide in the CW series, Black Lightning.
