CHARLBI DEAN. The South African actress on the poster for the Palme d’Or 2022 died Monday August 29, 2022 at the age of 32 in a New York hospital. Charlbi Dean was reportedly swept away by a “sudden and brutal illness”.
[Mis à jour le 31 août 2022 à 15h50] Charlbi Dean, lead actress in the film “Without Filter” who received the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, died on Monday August 29, 2022. She was only 32 years old. This South African actress and model died “suddenly” in a hospital in New York, confirmed one of her representatives. She would have succumbed to an illness, but no additional details on the circumstances of the death have been communicated.
Charlbi Dean was starting to make a name for herself in the film industry. We were able to see her parade at the Cannes Film Festival last May during the screening and then the victory of “Without Filter” by Ruben Östlund. The film will be released in French cinemas on September 28. Previously, the actress and supermodel had made a name for herself in the films Don’t Sleep (2017) and Interview with God (2018). We had also been able to see it in the series Black Lightning.
The Last Days of Charlbi Dean
Devastated by the death of the actress, her boxing trainer spoke in the columns of the Sun to tell the last days of Charlbi Dean. He saw her for the last time three days before her death, during training. “I didn’t see anything she could have had, he said. She was completely healthy and was just happy, smiling and she kept joking around.” The actress, however, would have canceled their training scheduled for Monday August 29 (a few hours before her death), at the last moment.
Charlbi Dean died on August 29, 2022, at just 32 years old. The South African actress would have succumbed to a “sudden illness”, according to information from TMZ, which does not say more. His agent confirmed the information from the American tabloid, without saying more. For the time being, the circumstances and the exact causes of death have not been communicated. However, she is said to have died in a New York hospital.
Charlbi Dean is a South African actress and model born on February 5, 1990, in Cape Town. She began her career in commercials when she was only six years old, before continuing as a top model. It was not until 2010, when she was 20, that she began her acting career. She plays Amanda in the Spud adaptation and its sequel, Spud 2: The Madness Continues. She was also seen in the films Don’t sleep in 2017 and Interview with God in 2018. The same year, she played Syonide, a regular character in the series Black Lightning, in two seasons. She continues to get noticed in 2022 by being one of the headliners of Without Filter, a film by Ruben Östlund which received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. On the private side, she was engaged to model Luke Volker. She died suddenly on August 29, 2022 in New York.
Prior to her death on August 29, 2022, Charlbi Dean was engaged to Luke Volker. The couple had been together for several years and got engaged a few months before the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Luke Volker defines himself on social networks as an artist and a model.