Kimberly Ebert Gregory, who was most famous as the daring director in the “Vice -Directors” of HBO, died. She was 52 years old.
The cause of death was not immediately reported.
Former husband Grigory, Chester Gregory, confirmed her death in Instagram mail.
“You were a brilliance, an embodied, black woman, whose mind illuminated every room, whose presence bore both fire and grace,” he wrote. “Much more than the ex -wife, you were my friend. Our son, the song that we wrote together, is the living echo of your light. ”
Walton Goggins, a breakthrough of the White Lotus, which starred with Gregory in Vice Directors, the HBO series, whose premiere took place in 2016 and continued for two seasons, was one of several performers who paid tribute to social networks.
“We lost one of the best yesterday … One of the best with whom I worked when I worked,” Goggins wrote in his Instagram mail. “I had an honor … Good luck to find out to spend months working with this queen on deputy directors.”
Among the others who remembered Gregory, were Kim Witley, Leslie Odom, the youngest and Jason Ritter.
The character of Gregory at the Vice Directors, Dr. Belinda Brown, robbed his heads with rivals, vice-director of secondary school Nile Gambi (“co-author” Danny McBride) and Lee Russell.
In him review “Vice -Director”, wrote Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times “Robert Lloyd”[Gregory’s] The character is an invitation to the political incorrect – when she was told that she graduated from Berkeley, the Nile replies: “I am quite affirmative how she entered” – but this attitude here is rather a side dish than dishes; Despite their carriage, these characters in the worst case are the bay heads. ”
Her other credits included the TV and the entire rise.
