Charlbi Dean Useless at 32: Syonide on ‘Black Lightning’

Up-and-coming actress Charlbi Dean, who performed villainous murderer Syonide on The CW’s Black Lightning, has died on the age of 32 following an surprising sickness, our sister website Selection experiences. No additional particulars on the reason for loss of life can be found presently.

A local of Cape City, South Africa, Dean labored as a mannequin all through her childhood and teenage years earlier than making her American TV debut in a 2017 episode of Elementary. The next 12 months, she took on the position of Syonide, the surrogate daughter of fundamental villain Tobias Whale, on The CW’s superhero collection Black Lightning. Tobias rescued Syonide from a dumpster when she was an toddler and molded her right into a extremely expert murderer, even implanting bulletproof fiber beneath her pores and skin.

Dean debuted as Syonide within the Black Lightning collection premiere and appeared in a complete of 9 episodes, together with her character getting killed off within the Season 2 premiere. The actress additionally costarred alongside Woody Harrelson within the upcoming movie Triangle of Disappointment, which gained the celebrated Palme d’Or at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant and is about to be launched in theaters in October. Her different roles embrace the films Dying Race 3: Inferno and Blood within the Water.