With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of this wonderful actress who broke so many barriers 💔 Full story below:

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She was also a singer, writer and activist who continued using her public voice far beyond  movie sets.

Her children emphasized that larger life when announcing her death.

Rather than defining her final chapter only through loss, they remembered a woman who had lived fully.

For generations of film lovers, Marina Vlady will remain connected to an era when European cinema was undergoing enormous artistic change — and to unforgettable performances that allowed her to stand alongside some of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century.

From the young daughter of Russian émigré artists in Clichy to an internationally recognized actress standing at Cannes with its Best Actress prize, Vlady’s journey was anything but ordinary.

More than 80 films, music, writing, political activism and a personal life that crossed cultures and borders all became chapters in the same remarkable story.

Marina Vlady was 88.

Eerie song Christa Pike was heard singing inside execution chamber before surviving two lethal injections

Strapped to a gurney inside Tennessee’s execution chamber, Christa Pike appeared remarkably calm in the minutes before officials attempted to put her to death.

Witnesses watching through the glass at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on September 30 saw the 50-year-old lying beneath a sheet with an intravenous line attached to her arm.

Before the lethal drugs began taking effect, however, another sound could reportedly be heard from inside the chamber.

Pike was singing alongside her spiritual adviser.

At that point, she believed she was living through the final minutes of her life.

Instead, the execution would end very differently.

Hours later, Pike was still alive and was taken from the prison to a hospital after Tennessee officials administered two doses of pentobarbital without successfully carrying out the death sentence. Her lawyers later said she required emergency medical treatment.

More than three decades earlier, Pike had been convicted in connection with the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Pike, her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Peterson knew Slemmer through the Knoxville Job Corps.

According to court records, Slemmer was taken to an isolated area near the University of Tennessee agricultural campus in Knoxville, where she was attacked and killed.

Pike was 18 at the time.

She was later convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy and sentenced to death, becoming the youngest woman sent to Tennessee’s death row.

Shipp, who was 17 when the killing occurred and therefore was not eligible for the death penalty, received a life sentence. Peterson cooperated with prosecutors and received probation.

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