FORMER child actress Jonshel Alexander is dead at age 22 after she was killed in a shooting in Louisiana. Alexander, who played a supporting role in the 2021 Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, was shot inside a vehicle on Saturday in New Orleans. When she was 12, Alexander played the character Joy Strong in the Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film portraying a poor Louisiana bayou community struggling to make ends meet. "Her character in the film is named Joy Strong, which seemed always like a perfect description of Jonshel." It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture.

Source: The Times December 02, 2021 20:41 UTC