Up-and-Coming South African Actress Charlbi Dean Dead at 32 After Sudden Illness

Charlbi Dean — well-known amongst DC followers, indie movie buffs and fashionistas — has died.

A rep for the South African actress/mannequin tells TMZ Dean handed away Monday from an sudden sudden sickness. We do not but know what sickness Dean was combating, however a supply tells us she died in a hospital in NYC.

Dean lately landed her largest position in “Triangle of Sadness.” It hasn’t hit theaters simply but, nevertheless it did impress at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition … the place it took high honors with the Palme d’Or award. It is a couple of wrecked cruise ship and its passengers getting washed ashore, Charlbi is the lead, starring reverse Woody Harrelson … the forged made an enormous splash in France in Could, displaying up at occasions and hitting pink carpets collectively.

When their movie gained, Charlbi wrote … “Congratulations our family we did it!!! @ruben_ostlund you’re the GOAT I’m forever thankful for you for trusting me to be apart of your genius and my dear @sinaostlund Can’t believe I had the best year making this during one of the hardest times in my life. Here’s some pics of the year in Sweden and Greece during the pandemic. Forever and always our @triangleofsadness family.”

She can be identified for her work on the CW present “Black Lightning,” the place she performed Syonide … an murderer/hitman-type of anti-hero who’s bought bulletproof pores and skin and top-notch fight expertise. Different movies she’s labored on embrace “Blood in the Water,” “Don’t Sleep,” “An Interview with God,” and “Porthole.”

She’s additionally walked her fair proportion of runways and graced quite a lot of journal covers too … CD has modeled all around the world.

Charlbi was engaged to male mannequin Luke Volker. She was 32.