Charlbi Dean dies at 32; model, actress known for Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sorrows

Charlbi Dean, South African actress and model, in sad triangle, She, who won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, has died at the age of 32. Dean died Monday in a New York hospital of a sudden illness, her representative said Tuesday. Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sorrows triumphs; full list of winners.

Dean also played the role of the assassin Syonide in the DC Comics TV series. black lightningwhich airs on The CW from 2018 to 2021.

She was born in Charlbi Dean Kriek in Cape Town, where she also grew up.

Dean started modeling at an early age, and over the next few decades he was a regular on fashion shows and magazine covers. In 2009, she survived a near-fatal car accident.

she made her film debut in 2010 Potato, based on the popular South African novel, about a boys’ boarding school starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese. She reprised her role in the 2013 sequel.

exist Sorrow Trianglethe first English-language film force majeure in Sweden Directors Ruben Ostrund, Dean and Harris Dickinson play a celebrity fashion model couple on a cruise ship for the chaotic super-rich. It also stars Woody Harrelson as the ship’s captain. The film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and opened in October in the US and much of Europe. Cannes 2022: Woody Harrelson’s Triangle of Sorrow gets 8-minute standing ovation.

At the film festival before the film won the award, Dean told The Associated Press, “For me, I thought, I’ve won. I’ve seen the film in Cannes. It’s unbelievable. At this point, any Things are just icing on the cake for me, you know?”