{"id":2072896,"date":"2025-10-06T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2072896"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:29:09","slug":"vice-principals-actress-kimberly-hebert-gregory-dies-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vice-principals-actress-kimberly-hebert-gregory-dies-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vice Principals\u2019 actress Kimberly He\u0301bert Gregory dies at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2554997\/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kimberly He\u0301bert Gregory;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kimberly He\u0301bert Gregory<\/a>, an actress known for roles on shows like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3766376\/?ref_=nm_knf_t_4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cVice Principals\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cVice Principals\u201d<\/a> and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7713450\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Craig of the Creek,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Craig of the Creek,\u201d<\/a> has died. She was 52.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gregory\u2019s ex-husband, Chester Gregory, said in an Instagram post that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPXlwSNCF25\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:she died on Friday, Oct. 3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">she died on Friday, Oct. 3<\/a>. He eulogized her as \u201cbrilliance embodied\u201d and \u201ca Black woman whose mind lit every room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gregory starred as school principal Belinda Brown on HBO\u2019s \u201cVice Principals,\u201d which co-starred Danny McBride and Walton Goggins, for two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She also appeared in every episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6474174\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cKevin\u201d (Probably) Saves the World\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cKevin\u201d (Probably) Saves the World\u201d<\/a> and had guest roles on shows like \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy,\u201d \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d and \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the big screen, Gregory was part of the cast of the 2019 Justin Baldoni drama \u201cFive Feet Apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Goggins memorialized Gregory as \u201cone of the best\u201d in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPaQY-jiJTd\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:an Instagram tribute;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">an Instagram tribute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe lost one of the best yesterday\u2026 one of the best I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d he captioned a photo of the two at the 2016 SXSW festival. \u201cI had the honor\u2026 the good fortune of getting to know, getting to spend months working with this Queen on Vice Principals. She made me laugh like no other. A professionals professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jason Ritter, the star of \u201cKevin (Probably) Saves the World,\u201d expressed his shock in a reply to Goggins\u2019 post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI can\u2019t believe this\u2026 she was such an incredible light on this planet. Heartbroken. She will be greatly missed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gregory and her ex-husband shared a son, according to his post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly He\u0301bert Gregory, an actress known for roles on shows like \u201cVice Principals\u201d and \u201cCraig of the Creek,\u201d has died. She was 52. Gregory\u2019s ex-husband, Chester Gregory, said in an Instagram post that she died on Friday, Oct. 3. He eulogized her as \u201cbrilliance embodied\u201d and \u201ca Black woman whose mind lit every room.\u201d Gregory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029532,"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":[25173],"tags":[387553,365317,53779,387554,387555,348232],"class_list":["post-2072896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-chester-gregory","tag-danny-mcbride","tag-instagram-post","tag-kimberly-hebert-gregory","tag-vice-principals","tag-walton-goggins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/In-Black-Rabbit-Jason-Bateman-and-Jude-Law-are-brothers.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072896","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=2072896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072896\/revisions\/2072897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}