Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in this year's movie about Elvis Presley, is found dead in a bedroom at her home in Nashville.
Shonka Dukureh, who played rhythm and blues singer Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann's recent Elvis biopic, has been found dead in a bedroom at her home in Nashville.Dukureh was a singer, actor and former teacher. Police said she shared the apartment with her two young children.Dukureh, who also shared the stage at Coachella this year with rapper and singer Doja Cat, had a theatre degree and an education degree, Nashville radio station WPLN-FM reported.
In an interview with the station last month, she recalled the moment she heard she got the part in Elvis and was being flown to Australia for the shoot."I knew to really pay tribute to her, I had to tap into myself, my own self-confidence, my own voice.
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