{"id":2070911,"date":"2025-10-05T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2070911"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:54:15","slug":"kimberly-hebert-gregory-vice-principals-actress-dead-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kimberly-hebert-gregory-vice-principals-actress-dead-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly H\u00e9bert Gregory, \u2018Vice Principals\u2019 Actress, Dead at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kimberly H\u00e9bert Gregory, the actress who starred on the HBO series<em> Vice Principals<\/em>, has died at the age of 52.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gregory\u2019s ex-husband Chester Gregory confirmed her death on social media Sunday; no cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cKimberly H\u00e9bert Gregory You Were Brilliance Embodied, A Black Woman Whose Mind Lit Every Room, Whose Presence Carried Both Fire And Grace. You Taught Us Lessons In Courage, In Artistry, In Resilience, And In How To Keep Showing Up, Even When Life Demanded More Than Its Share,\u201d Chester Gregory\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPXlwSNCF25\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote on Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThank You, Kimberly, For Every Chapter We Shared. Your Story Was Never Defined By The Battle, But By The Beauty You Carried Through It.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After first making her mark on the stage in the late Nineties, Gregory\u2019s film and television career began in 2007 with roles in Chris Rock\u2019s <em>I Think I Love My Wife<\/em> and one-episode roles in <em>Gossip Girl<\/em>,<em> The Black Donnellys<\/em>, <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>, and <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>. The actress also appeared in Spike Lee\u2019s <em>Red Hook Summer<\/em>, Justin Baldoni\u2019s <em>Five Feet Apart<\/em>, <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, <em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>, and <em>Better Call Saul<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2016, Gregory landed a main role as the school principal in the HBO series Vice Principals, co-starring Walton Goggins and Danny McBride. Goggins also paid tribute to his former co-star on social media, \u201cWe lost one of the best yesterday\u2026 one of the best I\u2019ve ever worked with. Kimberly Hebert Gregory. I had the honor\u2026 the good fortune of getting to know, getting to spend months working with this Queen on\u00a0<em>Vice Principals<\/em>. She made me laugh like no other. A professionals professional. A gatdamn SOPRANO that never missed a note. You will be missed my friend. As much as you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After <em>Vice Principals<\/em>, Gregory was also part of the main cast on sitcoms like <em>Kevin (Probably) Saves the World<\/em> and <em>Craig of the Creek<\/em>. Her last on-screen role was portraying Ruth Jean Baskerville Brown in the National Geographic series <em>Genius: Aretha<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.rollingstone.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RollingStone's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RollingStone&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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Gregory\u2019s ex-husband Chester Gregory confirmed her death on social media Sunday; no cause of death was provided. More from Rolling Stone \u201cKimberly H\u00e9bert Gregory You Were Brilliance Embodied, A Black Woman Whose Mind Lit Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2070912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[387553,361488,387554,387555],"class_list":["post-2070911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chester-gregory","tag-hbo-series","tag-kimberly-hebert-gregory","tag-vice-principals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kimberly-Hebert-Gregory-\u2018Vice-Principals-Actress-Dead-at-52.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070913,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070911\/revisions\/2070913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}