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Former child actor Sophie Nyweide dies aged 24

Nyweide began her career aged just six in Bella and went on to work on films including And Then Came Love, Margot at the Wedding and Noah

“Even with those roadmaps, diagnoses, and her own revelations, those closest to her, plus therapists, law enforcement officers and others who tried to help her are heartbroken their efforts couldn’t save her from her fate. Nyweide had her first screen credit aged six as the titular character in the weepie Bella, about a chef with a mysterious past who spends the day with a waitress who needs a friend. She played the daughter of Gael García Bernal and Michelle Williams’ characters in the 2009 film Mammoth, and a young girl in the Russell Crowe-starring Noah in 2014.

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