Naya Rivera, singer and actor best known for biting cheerleader Santana Lopez game Glee, drowned accidentally while confirming a boat trip on Lake Piru on July 8, the Ventura County Sheriff’s office on Monday. Sheriff’s office and other authorities searched for days for their bodies after they disappeared on the lake with his son after leaving a boat. He was 33. On July 8, Rivera took his four year old son, Josey, on a boat for rent in Los Padres National Forest, about an hour northwest of Los Angeles. When Rivera did not return in the allotted three hours, concession workers went looking for her and found the boat with his son asleep on the edge of car, officials said. The son of Rivera told investigators that he and his mother had been swimming in the lake, and that she helped him get back on the boat, but then disappeared into the water. A life jacket is not used for larger adults were found on the boat. The sheriff’s office began on that day for Rivera scoured research and later included on the lake for days with a 100-person team, dive team and helicopter operators. “When you talk under water and visibility is very limited, there is a slow search process down” Sgt. Kevin Donoghue Office of the Ventura County Sheriff he said at a news conference on Thursday. Monday ‘, the sheriff’s office announced that a body has been found and that Riveras. Investigators said there was no evidence of a crime or suicide was. At the news of his death former cast members and friends they have reacted to social media in disbelief and pain. If Glee began airing in 2009, character Rivera, Santana was initially a small antagonist in “mean girls” form. But Santana quickly became a fan favorite for his sharp and witty comebacks and insults Rivera was promoted to the main cast of the next season. Since she had more time on the screen, his character was also given given more depth struggled with being closeted lesbian and fall in love with her best friend, Brittany (Heather Morris). nuanced performance by Rivera earned his acclaim and adulation and often made it a symbol LGBTQ in a time when gay relationships were on TV. to fight “the story with Santana with their affection for one another teenager called me a lesbian but not knowing how loud or say, it is one that this level of network television in prime time show called, not from a particular LGBT teens of color, “Jarrett Barrios, president of GLAAD who was, at the time, said in 2011 Naya Rivera was born on January 12, 1987, and grew up in Santa Clarita, Calif. He entered the show when he was a small child, to earn a role on the sitcom The royal family at the age of four. However, the show was soon hit by a tragedy if the comedian John Elroy Sanford (better known by his stage name Redd Foxx) who played the grandfather had a heart attack on the set and later died in hospital hours. “We sat down, his TV family and his real family, all mixed together in the waiting room to pray and try to comfort her,” Rivera wrote in his autobiography in 2016, I’m sorry not sorry. In the ’90s, small roles in shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Family Matters Rivera would score. As a teenager, he worked on The Bernie Mac Show and was also a seller, an Abercrombie & Fitch Greeter and a Hooters waitress. But his big break came with Glee. Santana Lopez was often the most memorable lines of the show, and as a singer, Rivera excelled at powerful torch ballads, Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird” Barbra Streisand “Do not Rain On My Parade” by Adele “Someone Like You”. character Rivera was also reinforced by the rabid fan base show that clamored to be romantically involved for her and Brittany. In the second season, Glee showrunner has thus designed to achieve this relationship; the couple finally married in season six. “There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I’m honored to represent them,” said Rivera during his Glee GLAAD Awards held twice in an interview with Latina magazine in 2013. But, as Rivera has grown in stature, he was met obstacles and tragedies. She was often the subject of tabloid fodder, both for their commitment with rapper Big Sean and his relationship with Glee’s Lea Michele tense co-star. In 2013, his Glee castmate Cory Monteith died of an overdose. Four years later, she was arrested and the offense internal battery against his then-husband Ryan Dorsey, but then drop the charge. The couple divorced in 2018, and Josey was their only child together. In 2016, Rivera has published his autobiography, in which he detailed his battle with anorexia teenagers to get their decision to have an abortion, and their struggles with racism in Hollywood as a mixed-race actors. (Rivera Black, Puerto Rican and German ancestry.) “It ‘s always interesting to see how people are always kind of try to understand, and in a nice, neat little box,” he said in an interview in 2016. After leaving Glee Rivera played in a lifetime Devious Maids and landed in the series Step Up Red YouTube a recurring role: high water. Rivera has remained active in political and social causes in their career. In 2014 he made his directorial debut with a short film about the impact of immigration on the parents and their children for the first annual immigration Heritage Month. He led fundraisers for causes such as Alexandria house and the Trevor Project. Last month, he posted a video in a black screw matter of protest in Los Angeles. His latest Tweet provided a picture of her and her son, the heading “only two of us.”
Naya Rivera, Glee star pioneer, dead at 33 after drowning
