Overview
- Freeman's family, which posted an Instagram statement Friday, said she died peacefully Thursday, April 2, at 66.
- The family cited stage 4 lung cancer, and her publicist, Desirae L. Benson, praised her grace and courage during treatment.
- She recently played Valerie Barnes on Tyler Perry’s Sistas and earlier appeared in The Young and the Restless, Shameless, NCIS: Los Angeles, Seinfeld, ER, and Dexter.
- Before acting, she served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps, then worked as a radio DJ in Japan and built a long career on stage and screen.
- She is survived by her children, Amber and Shane, and had been adapting her one-woman show Poison Gun into a novel.