Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who was greatest generally known as the brash principal in HBO’s “Vice Principals,” has died. She was 52.
A reason for dying was not instantly reported.
Gregory’s former husband, Chester Gregory, confirmed her dying in an Instagram put up.
“You Have been Brilliance Embodied, A Black Girl Whose Thoughts Lit Each Room, Whose Presence Carried Each Hearth And Grace,” he wrote. “So A lot Extra Than Ex-Spouse, You Have been My Good friend. Our Son, The Track We Wrote Collectively, Is The Residing Echo Of Your Gentle.”
Walton Goggins, the “White Lotus” breakout who co-starred with Gregory in “Vice Principals,” the HBO sequence which premiered in 2016 and lasted for 2 seasons, was amongst a number of performers who paid tribute on social media.
“We misplaced among the best yesterday… among the best I’ve ever labored with,” Goggins wrote in his Instagram put up. “I had the distinction… the nice fortune of attending to know, attending to spend months working with this Queen on Vice Principals.”
Others who remembered Gregory included Kym Whitley, Leslie Odom Jr. and Jason Ritter
Gregory’s character on “Vice Principals,” Dr. Belinda Brown, butted heads with rival highschool vice principals Neal Gamby (present co-creator Danny McBride) and Lee Russell (Goggins).
In his overview of “Vice Principals,” Los Angeles Occasions’ Robert Lloyd wrote, “[Gregory’s] character is an invite to political incorrectness — when instructed she graduated from Berkeley, Neal responds, ‘I’m fairly affirmative how she received in’ — however that angle is extra a aspect dish right here than an entree; regardless of their conniving, these characters are lunkheads at worst.”
Her different credit included TV’s “The Chi” and “All Rise.”
