Samantha Weinstein Dies Aged 28

Actor Samantha Weinstein, greatest identified for enjoying Heather within the 2013 horror remake of Carrie, has died on the age of 28.

Weinstein died on Might 14 in her hometown of Toronto after coping with ovarian most cancers for greater than two years. She married in October and was on a belated honeymoon in Japan with husband Michael Knutson earlier this month.

She was “surrounded by her family members at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto”, a put up on her Instagram account learn. “After two and a half years of most cancers therapy, and a lifetime of jet setting around the globe, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and realizing extra about life than most individuals ever will, she is off on her subsequent journey.”

Photographs of Weinstein joyously floating towards a celestial background accompanied the announcement.

“Sam was really a dwelling embodiment of a sunbeam,” her father, David Weinstein, advised The Canadian Press on Wednesday. “She was so stuffed with optimistic vitality, anybody who ever met her would say that she simply lit up each room she walked into.”

Weinstein additionally starred within the 2011 comedy Jesus Henry Christ. The film, headlined by Toni Collette, premiered on the Tribeca Movie Competition. (Quick ahead to 1:25 to look at Weinstein.)

On the small display, Weinstein appeared in three episodes of the 2017 Netflix collection Alias Grace, based mostly on Margaret Atwood’s novel.

In her highest-profile film function, Weinstein portrayed the highschool bully Heather who tormented Carrie (Chloë Grace Moretz). Within the promenade scene beneath the place Carrie unleashes her telekinetic powers, Heather will get her comeuppance.

She was a “very prolific” voice actor, her father advised the Canadian information company, and was nonetheless engaged on the animated collection Mittens & Pants and “Dino Ranch” in current weeks.

Round that very same time, Weinstein shared pictures from her honeymoon in Japan in early Might.

“Getting most cancers is the worst factor that’s ever occurred to me, however within the strangest of the way it has additionally been the very best factor,” Weinstein wrote in a 2022 essay that centered partly on her relationship with Knutson. “ … I’ve extra love in my life and for myself than I ever might have imagined, and I see day by day as a present.”