Charlbi Dean, the South African actress and model, fresh from her performance in the film Palme d'Or at Cannes 2022 'Triangle of Sadness', died in a New York hospital "of a sudden illness".
She was 32 years old.
The American media reported it.
Before starring with Harris Dickinson and Woody Harrelson in Ruben Östlund's ferocious satire of capitalism, which is set to hit US theaters on October 7, Charlbi made a name for herself for the part of Syonide, a recurring character in the DC comic series. Comics 'Black Lightning' on CW.
In 'Triangle of Sadness' the young actress had the part of the model Yaya, one of the guests for a cruise aboard a superyacht whose command is an irreducible Marxist and who ends up catastrophically with the survivors abandoned on a desert island .
Charlbi was born in 1990 in Cape Town.
She made her debut as a baby model at six and in the cinema at ten in the comedy 'Spud' with John Cleese and Troye Sivan.
She then appeared in the films 'Death Race 3: Inferno' (2013), 'Blood in the Water' (2016), 'Don't Sleep' (2017) and 'Porthole' (2018).
As a model she had worked for Guess, Benetton and Ralph Lauren campaigns.
In 2008, she survived a serious car accident that left her with broken bones and a pneumothorax.
No indication has yet come of the disease that has been fatal to her.