Ugandan Disney Actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa Dead at 15

-- a young actress who starred in a Ugandan Disney movie about a chess prodigy -- has reportedly died ... this after battling health issues a few years earlier.

According to the Ugandan news outlet, The Daily Monitor, Nikita recently passed away. While they don't say exactly how, the paper seems to link her death to a 2016 diagnosis ... which found she had a tumor in her brain. Unclear if she was fighting full-blown cancer. Even more tragic ... the Monitor says a funding campaign was started for her Nikita to get treated in India, because local doctors were quoted as not having the proper equipment.

As for her acting career, it appears she only starred in the one Disney flick,"Queen of Katwe," playing a friend of the actual chess prodigy, Phiona Mutesi. It also featured

My her beautiful soul rest in peace 🙏🏽😔

sorry for her family

Really tragic, the little she has done will not be forgotten

I thought I had a big forehead

So sad rest in paradise 😢

RIP , Nikita Pearl Waliga . And may God be upon you . Amen .

Rest in paradise 🙏🏾

Rest in peace 🤲🏽

RIP

Why did she die from? What was she on?

Aww rest in peace sweet girl

RIP❤️

My uncle passed away to Robert Rissi on my sons 27 bday from cancer he was the sound engineer for fender guitar for about 20 yrs

🙏🙏🙏

Rest with the Angles Princess 👑

Sad🙏🙏🙏

Sad story

Rest inpeace

Rip beauty god received a angel today

Heartbreaking. Rest easy sweet angel. 😞🙏🏽

Rest In Peace young queen .

She looked 40

Brain tumor

Does her family know yet or did y’all fuck this one up too

So sad

RIP Gone too soon! 😿

Sleep In Peace Queen 🙏🏾🙏🏾

So sad live a little angel RIP💔☹️

Rip she died from ebola

What happened?

May she rest in peace 🙏

😳🙏

Sad News. She was so young. My Prayers and sincere condolences are with her family.

😢

RIP Nikita Pearl Waligwa

Incredibly sad. Prayers.

Rip

RIP young lady.

RIP 🙏🙏🙏😪😪❤️🌹

Jayofficial951 RIP

How?!!!!!

©️🥺

Please start using passed away in headlines, it sounds far less crude then dead.

？

RIP 😢

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