death of actress Dalyce Curry, seen in “The Blues Brothers”

The granddaughter of actress Dalyce Curry announced the news Tuesday, January 14 on Instagram. The actress died at the age of 95 in a fire in her house in Altadena, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, ravaged by fires since Tuesday January 7.

The young woman named Dalyce Kelley had just spent several days looking for her grandmother, whom she was the last to see alive in her house, reports the media 20 minutes. His body was found under the rubble of his home.

According to the Los Angeles Timesthe American was known for her roles in “The 10 Commandments”, “Lady Sings the Blues” and “The Blues Brothers”.

Below, his granddaughter spoke to the American channel NBCNews.

Dalyce Curry spent January 7 in the hospital for health problems before returning home to Altadena, reports the daily Los Angeles Times.

When her granddaughter woke up that night to an emergency alert, she rushed to her grandmother’s neighborhood, but a police officer stopped her at a barricade and told her that the her grandmother’s house had already disappeared.