Sophie Nyweide, who portrayed the daughter of the characters of Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal in the romantic drama of 2009 Mammothis dead. She was 24 years old.
Nyweide, who appeared in seven films at the age of 10, died on April 14, his family announced in a paid Billology.
As for the cause, they wrote: “Sophie was a kind and confident girl. Often, it left it open to be benefited by others. She wrote and drawn in a voracious way, and a large part of this art represents the depth it had, and this also represents the pain it has suffered. Many of his writings and works are roadmaps’ application agents and other people who tried to help him, have a broken heart, they could not save her from her fate.
Nyweide played a young person whose mother dies of cancer An invisible sign (2010), with Jessica Alba. In his review for THE New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis admired her performance and said that she “should have a brilliant future”.
She also appeared in Noah Baumbach Margot at marriage (2007); In Shadows and lies (2010), with James Franco; And in Darren Aronofsky Noah (2014), with Russell Crowe.
For Mammoth (2009), director Lukas Moodysson, the character of Nyweide, Jackie, spends a large part of his time with his Philippine nanny (Marife Necesito) with her parents too busy for her. The young actress was part of the Castmembers who headed abroad to promote the Swedish drama in English during the premiere of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Nyweide was born on July 8, 2000 in Burlington, Vermont. Her desire to become an actress came to watch films on the photo of the now closed village shows the cinema in Manchester, Vermont, that her mother, Shelly Gibson, an old actress, bought in 2003.
“She grew up in this cinema and slept in the cinema and had a small bed in the projection stand and watched many films,” recalls Gibson in a 2010 interview.
After seeing Nancy Meyers’ Something must give (2003) When she was 4 years old, Nyweide said: “She continued to beg my mother (to be an actress). She thought it was funny because before my birth, she was an actress … But I didn’t know, “she said.
“She gives me a lot of useful advice and advice,” she explained in another cat in 2010. “How you can enter your character like doing it in a mirror or doing it by yourself, practicing it again and again to do it (that), to try it in different ways and see how you feel good,” she said.
(Gibson’s credits include a turn as aumnier on two episodes of St. elsewhere in 1988.)
Nyweide’s first role came as a title character in Bella (2006), co-written and produced by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde and with Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. The drama won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
She then appeared in a 2007 episode of Law and orderFollowed by work in the 2007 films And then came love And New York Serenade And a concert on the show ABC Hidden-Camera What would you do? In 2015, his latest credit on the screen.
The survivors include his brother, Huck. Donations in his name can be made in Rainn.
Nyweide “seemed to be the happiest in a film set, becoming someone else,” wrote his family. “It was a safe place for her … The casts and the crews fueled her talent and her well-being. She was an impatient adventurer and picked up the customs and even the languages of any place she visited. She easily made friends in her schools and saw the good in everyone.
“His death has left a hole in everything. The sadness, the loss, the sorrow and even the anger are present for those who loved it and will now have to continue without his laughter, his contagious passion and his zest – without these incredible blue eyes that could look directly at heart.”
