Cinema has just lost one of its rising stars.
Monday August 29, the spokesperson for Charlbi Dean announced the death of the actress, at the age of 32 years.
The drama took place in New York and the circumstances of the death have not yet been revealed.
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The young woman is on the poster for Ruben Östlund's film,
Without Filter
(
Triangle of Sadness
, in English) which received the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival.
She 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.
In video,
Without filter
, the trailer
From South Africa to Fashion Weeks around the world
The young Charlbi was born in 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa, where she grew up.
Her modeling career began when she was only 6 years old, appearing in advertisements and catalogs.
The lens of cameras and cameras seem to adore her, since, at 12, the future actress ended up signing a contract with Alfa Model Management, a modeling agency located in South Africa.
Following distance learning courses, she then traveled between Cape Town, Tokyo, New York and even London.
Her career exploded, the young woman collaborated with the big luxury brands and posed for many magazines such as
Vogue
India,
Myself
Germany or for the Swedish media
Plaza .
.
In June 2022, she paraded for the Sacred Heart collection of the AMI Paris house, in front of the Sacré-Coeur basilica.
Culture and cinema
Passionate about art, Charlbi regularly shares on her Instagram account the creations of contemporary artists who inspire her, such as Pierre Schmidt, Aniela Sobieski or Ruby Faber.
She made her film debut in 2010 in the South African film
Spud
, directed by Donovan Marsh.
Her talent as an actress began to be recognized and the public found her in
Death Race: Inferno
, by Roel Reiné, in the horror film
Don't Sleep
directed by Rick Bieber or in an American drama,
Interview with God,
by Perry Lang.
But the general public discovers her above all thanks to the DC Comics series,
Black Lightning
, in which she plays Sydonide, for two seasons.
“A shock and a tragedy”
In 2022, a few months before the tragedy, it is the consecration.
Charlbi Dean finds herself on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival alongside Harris Dickinson, Woody Harrelson and director Ruben Östlund, for the rise of the steps of
Without filter
.
The film (in French theaters on September 28) won the Palme d'Or, the Swedish director's second.
The latter expressed his sadness on Instagram, posting a photo of his actress on the set of the film.
“Charlbi's sudden passing is a shock and a tragedy.
It is an honor to have had the opportunity to know her and work with her,” he wrote in the caption, highlighting the care and sensitivity of the actress “who raised her colleagues and all the team”.
And sending a thought to her fiancé Luke.
On the social network, the actress had highlighted this sentence: “You know that there is a kind of bird which has no legs and which therefore cannot move, but which must remain all its life on its wings in the sky?
Heaven she sadly joined this Tuesday.