(Stockholm) The death at 32 of South African actress Charlbi Dean, heroine of Triangle of SadnessPalme d’or at Cannes this year, is a “shock and a tragedy”, the Swedish director of the film, Ruben Östlund, said on Wednesday.
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“Charlbi’s sudden death is a shock and a tragedy. It’s an honor to have known her and to have worked with her,” the filmmaker said on Instagram.
The actress and model “had an application and a sensitivity that lifted her colleagues and the entire film crew”, greeted Mr. Östlund, crowned at the end of May with a second Cannes Palme d’Or, five years later. The Square.
“To think that she won’t be with us in the future makes me very sad,” he said.
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Charlbi Dean during the presentation of the film Triangle of Sadness in Cannes last May.
The death of the young actress, which occurred Monday in New York for a still unknown reason, was confirmed Tuesday by a spokesperson.
In Triangle of SadnessCharlbi Dean plays Yaya, a top model and influencer obsessed with her image and her career, who is offered a luxury cruise with her boyfriend, also a model.
After starting child modeling, Charlbi Dean had started an acting career at 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 sleepand the following year in An Interview with God.