Jonshel Alexander, revealed at the age of 12 by the film “Beasts of the Wild South”, was killed in a shootout on November 27, 2021, in New Orleans. The young woman was injured while in a car and could not be resuscitated.
According to the American site Deadline, the actress was shot while she was in a car. She was declared dead on the spot by the emergency services. A man who was with her was seriously injured and taken to hospital for an emergency. But she did not survive her injuries.
It happened in Louisiana when a car started shooting at the vehicle in which she was Jonshel Alexander, one of the actresses of “Beasts of the Wild South”, the popular film that had four Oscar nominations last year 2012, has been murdered in Louisiana, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, after a car began to shoot at the vehicle in which he was. So far, the New Orleans police have been unable to identify the perpetrator of the shots. An event that has dismayed much of the industry since the young woman was only 22 years old.
And is that with 10, Jonshel Alexander appeared in “Beasts of the Wild South”, the great film by Behn Zeitlin, who has already claimed to feel devastated by this sad news. Alexander was the youngest of three children, and Zeitlin noticed her for a drama she was preparing about the Louisiana swamp community. And the thing is, this film made more than 4,000 auditions for people from the area to star in it.
“She said ‘I’m going to be in the movie’, and they fell in love with Jonshel “, commented the mother of the deceased, who assures that, from the first moment, her daughter dazzled the team. Being too old for the role of Hushpuppy, who ended up playing Quvenzhané Wallis, Johnsel played Joy Strong, a character made for her.
“Beasts of the Wild South” won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and garnered up to four Oscar nominations, including ‘Best Picture’, but Jonshel did not return to work as an actress despite her great impact on the film.
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