After appearing in several episodes of the DC Comics series Black LightningCharlbi Dean was one of the headliners of Ruben Östlund’s latest film, Without Filterwhich won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022. She died in August 2022, aged just 32.
After the death of actor and artistic director Robert LuPone on August 27, 2022, Hollywood mourned a future star of the big screen. The American site TMZ indeed announced the death of Charlbi Dean. The actress born in Cape Town, South Africa, was just 32 years old when she died on August 29, 2022. She was especially in the spotlight for a few months since she was one of the headliners of Without Filterthe latest film by Ruben Östlund, which received the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Charlbi Dean starred in the film that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2022
Before walking the famous Cannes red carpet, Charlbi Dean collected small roles on the big screen, notably appearing in Death Race : Inferno by Roel Reiné. However, she achieved fame by joining the cast of Don’t Sleep of Rick Bieber andInterview with God by Perry Lang. But it is in 2022 that she experiences a real spotlight and consecration when the film Without Filter (Triangle of Sadness in original version) receives the Palme d’Or during the 75th edition of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the jury of which was then chaired by Vincent Lindon. Before Without Filtershe appeared in several episodes of the DC series Black Lightning, alongside her modeling career, where she played a hitwoman whose skin could not be penetrated by bullets.
A death “sudden and unexpected” at 32
The actress appeared on the red carpet during the screening of the film, and also participated in the press conference. Without Filter is the latest film by Ruben Östlund, president of the jury of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Charlbi Dean plays Yaya alongside Harris Dickinson and Woody Harrelson. We follow a cruise of the ultra-rich, at the moment when the ship takes on water, leaving a couple of models and a few survivors alone on a desert island. In a press release sent by his representative, we learn that the actress died of an illness “sudden and unexpected”in a New York hospital. We later learned that she died of septicemia, following a car accident that occurred a few years earlier. She was engaged to Luke Volker, a model.
