"Nanny McPhee" star and climate change activist Raphael Coleman has died at the age of 25."Rest in peace my beloved son Raphael Coleman, aka Iggy Fox," she wrote."He died doing what he loved, working for the noblest cause of all. His family could not be prouder. Let's celebrate all he achieved in his short life and cherish his legacy."
"Raph wasn't my child, even though I was close to him. But I can feel it myself. I see it in his mother's eyes, and I hear it in her voice, the irreversible loss of the most precious thing in life," Jensen wrote in the post. He was best known for playing Eric Brown, aged 11, in the 2005 British comedy movie"Nanny McPhee," alongside Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury."After we worked on Nanny McPhee, he dedicated his life to protecting wildlife and fighting climate change," she wrote.
He became an active member of the climate activism group Extinction Rebellion, according to his stepfather."Under the name Iggy Fox, he controlled the group's use of social media, spoke at demonstrations, and was arrested again and again," wrote Jensen.Extinction Rebellion posted a tribute to Coleman on its website."You were a true warrior, who tirelessly worked on behalf of others, on behalf of all life," said the statement.
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