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Keisha Nash-Whitaker, actress and producer ex-wife of Forest Whitaker, has died, her household confirmed. A reason behind loss of life was not launched. She was 51.
Whitaker’s daughter True shared the information in an Instagram story, writing “goodbye mommy. I like you 4ever and past. probably the most stunning lady on the planet … thanks for instructing me each single factor I do know. I’ll see you in my goals and I’ll really feel you in my coronary heart.”
Whitaker and Nash met on the set of Blown Away in 1994. In a 2020 interview with Essence, Nash mentioned she’d seen Whitaker’s efficiency in A Rage in Harlem in 1991, earlier than the 2 had met. “Immediately, I assumed Forest had a delicate soul and a pleasant spirit,” she mentioned.
The couple married in Jamaica in 1996. Whitaker filed for divorce in 2018 citing “irreconcilable variations,” based on a number of media reviews. The couple shared two daughters, Sonnet, 25, and True, 25.
Nash-Whitaker portrayed Collette within the 2004 movie Proud, and government produced Kief Davidson’s Kassim the Dream in 2008, based on her IMDB profile.
