Kimberly Hébert Gregory, actor in 'Vice Principals,' dies at 52

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who was champion known arsenic the brash main successful HBO’s “Vice Principals,” has died. She was 52.

A origin of decease was not instantly reported.

Gregory’s erstwhile husband, Chester Gregory, confirmed her decease successful an Instagram post.

“You Were Brilliance Embodied, A Black Woman Whose Mind Lit Every Room, Whose Presence Carried Both Fire And Grace,” helium wrote. “So Much More Than Ex-Wife, You Were My Friend. Our Son, The Song We Wrote Together, Is The Living Echo Of Your Light.”

Walton Goggins, the “White Lotus” breakout who co-starred with Gregory successful “Vice Principals,” the HBO bid that premiered successful 2016 and lasted for 2 seasons, was among respective performers who paid tribute connected societal media.

“We mislaid 1 of the champion yesterday… 1 of the champion I’ve ever worked with,” Goggins wrote successful his Instagram post. “I had the honor… the bully luck of getting to know, getting to walk months moving with this Queen connected Vice Principals.”

Others who remembered Gregory included Kym Whitley, Leslie Odom Jr. and Jason Ritter.

Gregory’s quality connected “Vice Principals,” Dr. Belinda Brown, butted heads with rival precocious schoolhouse vice principals Neal Gamby (show co-creator Danny McBride) and Lee Russell (Goggins).

In his reappraisal of “Vice Principals,” the Los Angeles Times’ Robert Lloyd wrote, “[Gregory’s] quality is an invitation to governmental incorrectness — erstwhile told she graduated from Berkeley, Neal responds, ‘I’m beauteous affirmative however she got in’ — but that cognition is much a broadside crockery present than an entree; contempt their conniving, these characters are lunkheads astatine worst.”

Her different credits included TV’s “The Chi” and “All Rise.”