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Nikita Pearl Waligwa, the younger Ugandan newcomer who starred in “Queen of Katwe,” the 2016 Disney movie a couple of chess champion’s coming of age, has died of a mind tumor. She was once 15.
Her demise was once introduced on Sunday through Gayaza Prime College, an all-girls boarding faculty outdoor the Ugandan capital of Kampala the place Ms. Waligwa were a pupil.
“You had been a darling to many and we have now misplaced you to a mind tumor at the sort of gentle age,” the highschool mentioned on Twitter.
The announcement triggered an outpouring of tributes from a few of Ms. Waligwa’s co-stars in “Queen of Katwe,” which was once according to a 2011 essay in ESPN The Mag a couple of chess prodigy in Uganda who grows up in a slum and wins world competitions. The movie starred Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. It was once indexed as Ms. Waligwa’s best movie credit score.
Within the film, Ms. Waligwa performed Gloria, a pal of the protagonist, Phiona Mutesi, who was once performed through Madina Nalwanga.
Phiona turns into a chess whiz with lend a hand from Gloria and below the tutelage of Robert Katende, performed through Mr. Oyewolo.
The movie was once directed through Mira Nair and starred Ms. Nyong’o, an Oscar winner for “12 Years a Slave,” as Phiona’s mom.
“She performed Gloria with such vibrancy,” Ms. Nyong’o mentioned on Instagram. “In her actual existence she had the large problem of scuffling with mind most cancers. My ideas and prayers are together with her circle of relatives and group as they arrive to phrases with having to mention good-bye so quickly.”
“Queen of Katwe” was once the movie debut of each Ms. Waligwa and Ms. Nalwanga.
“We mourn the lack of our stunning Nikita Pearl Waligwa,” Mr. Oyewolo wrote on Instagram. “She was once a ball of sunshine in @queenofkatwemovie and in existence. Her fight with a mind tumor was once humbling to witness. Her gentle will survive.”
