The Palme D’Or winning film ‘Triangle of Sadness ‘ actor Charlibi Dean passes away at the age of 32

The ‘Triangle of Sadness’ actor Charlbi Dean passed away at the age of 32, all of a sudden suffering from an unexpected illness, as informed by her representatives.

Charlbi Dean Kreik, a South African actor and model who had performed a praiseworthy role in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, which won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Besides, she also performed a marvellous role as the assassin Syonide on the DC Comics television series Black Lightning, which aired CW from 2018 to 2021.

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The Triangle of Sadness actor Charlbi Dean passed away at the age of 32, all of a sudden suffering from an unexpected illness, as informed by her representatives.
No distinct cause for this untimely death is found yet though the source confirms she was admitted and dies at a hospital in New York.

Dean was born and raised in Cape Town. She began modeling as a child, making frequent walks fashion runways and magazine covers in the decades that followed. She is reported to get survived a near-fatal car accident in 2009.

She made her acting debut in the 2010 film Spud, an adaptation of a popular South African novel about a boys’ boarding school starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese. She reprised her role in a 2013 sequel.

“In Triangle of Sadness, the first English-language film from Swedish Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund, Dean and Harris Dickinson play a celebrity fashion-model couple on a cruise for the ultra-rich. It also stars Woody Harrelson as the ship’s captain. The film won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in May and opens in the US and most of Europe in October.”

At the festival before the film won the award, Dean told The Associated Press, “For me, I’m like, I’ve already won. I’m already at Cannes with the movie. That’s so unbelievable. Anything is just a cherry on top at this point for me, you know?”