Samantha Weinstein.Photo:Instagram/samsationalw
Instagram/samsationalw
Samantha Weinstein, an actress and musician who starred in the 2013Carrieremake withChloë Grace Moretz, has died from cancer at 28.
“After two and a half years of cancer treatment, and a lifetime of jet setting around the world, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and knowing more about life than most people ever will, she is off on her next adventure,” they wrote in the caption.
Weinstein’s costar from the Netflix seriesAlias Gracewrote in the comment section, “Sam was such a bright light. It was a privilege to know her.”
The actress married husband Michael Knutson on Oct. 29, 2022, which she called “the best day of my life,” in an Instagram post: “I married my best friend, my partner in crime and the love of my life, Michael Knutson.Here’s just a snapshotof the most beautiful day to ever be.”
Samantha Weinstein in 2011.Jemal Countess/Getty
Jemal Countess/Getty
“When Michael and I started text-flirting, after just one socially-distanced-pandemic-date, we started planning our wedding,” she wrote. “I said instead of a first dance we should have a lightsaber duel. 20 months, 10 rounds of chemo, and a lifetime’s worth of memories later, here we are.”
Open about her health experiences, Weinsteinhad “emergency surgeryto remove a massive cyst that swallowed one of my ovaries” in January 2021. Then 25, sherevealed on Instagramthat April that she’d “been battling a rare form of ovarian cancer for the past 3 months.”
She added of documenting her cancer journey, “I’m a firm believer that representation in media matters, and cancer treatment is no different. Cancer can affect anyone - I’m living proof of that. I figure that if someone else out there with cancer sees me going through it, maybe it will give them a shred of strength too. While there are no guarantees in life, my outcome is very good and I have every shot of living a long, healthy life post-treatment. Chemo will be my toughest journey yet, but it will make me stronger than I’ve ever been.”
Weinsteinwrote an essayin July 2022 about her cancer diagnosis and coming out as non-binary.
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In it, she wrote, “Getting cancer is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, but in the strangest of ways it has also been the best thing. I’m still living with cancer, and with my parents since the future is uncertain (on the bright side, we’ve never been closer!). I continue to work in my dream career as a voice actor. I have more love in my life and for myself than I ever could have imagined, and I see every day as a gift.”
According to the Canadian actress’sbioon Penguin Random House’s website, she also used her voice talents to read audiobooks, along with roles on animated series likeD.N. Ace. She began acting at 6, she had a garage-rock band calledKiller Virgins, “and in her spare time practices martial arts and plays electric guitar.”
Aside from playing one of Carrie White’s high school classmates Heather in the 2013 Stephen King adaptationCarrie, Weinstein’s other movie credits includeHaunter(2013) andJesus Henry Christ(2011).
source: people.com
