(New York) 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 door -speech by confirming information from the specialized press.
Posted at 2:41 p.m.
“It’s appalling,” a representative of the actress replied to AFP by email, adding “confirm information from TMZ”, the American media of reference for celebrities.
According to this site and the media Deadline, Charlbi Dean died “suddenly” Monday in a hospital in New York.
No information was available on the causes of her death, in particular on a possible illness against which she would have fought.
In the movie Triangle of Sadness by Swede Ruben Östlund, Charlbi Dean plays Yaya, top model and influencer, obsessed with her image and her career, who is offered a luxury cruise with her boyfriend, also a model.
five years later The SquareRuben Östlund won a second Palme d’or in May in the 75e Cannes Film Festival with this enjoyable satire of the super-rich and luxury, judged as the most entertaining film in the Cannes competition.
According to the specialized press, Charlbi Dean Kriek was born on February 5, 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa, and began modeling at the age of six, then a career on the screens from the age of 20 with two first South African films: Spud in 2010 and beyond 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.