Megan Van Peebles – Movies, Family, Cause Of Death

Megan Van Peebles was an actress known for the ancient “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”. And a couple of others including just “Baddasssss”. She passed away in 2006 which is 16 years ago but we still talk about her today. There must be something about her.

Here is everything we know about her lifetime, career, and cause of death.

Megan Van Pebbles – Where was she born?

Megan Van Pebbles was born in June 1958. She was born in Nancy Pelosi’s city of San Francisco, California. She was the offspring of two continents: An American father named Melvin Van Pebbles and a German mother named Maria Marx. Both her parents were involved in entertainment – a filmmaking, musician, and novelist father and an acting/photography mother.

She has a small stint, in Mexico, growing up where her father painted portraits. She has a younger brother named Max Van Peebles. He is an actor.

What movies was she in?

Megan had her debut in 1971, in “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” a blaxploitation movie written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles her father. Her brother, Mario, also had a small role in this film which tells the picaresque story of a poor black man fleeing from the white police authorities.

She was 13 years old.

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In 1985, she appeared in her second and last picture, “South Bronx Heroes” produced and directed by William Szarka. It is about a young man just released from prison and living with his sister crosses paths with two children, also brother and sister, who are on the run from their child pornographer foster parents.

In 2005, she appeared in “How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)”, a documentary about her legendary father.

Husband and father

Megan Van Peebles was married to a certain Ron Van which means she wouldn’t have to change her name to take his. The couple was blessed with two sons named Ronald Van Jr. and Roman Van. The marriage ended in a divorce but we have no details of the dates of the marriage and divorce.

Her father was an actor, filmmaker, novelist, composer, and general entertainer. He had his debut in 1967 as an actor and never looked back till his last credit in 2019 aged 87. He passed away in 2021 with more than half a dozen albums, about ten plays, and dozens of films as an actor or filmmaker, and countless awards to his name.

Megan Van Pebbles’ Cause of death

Megan Van Peebles passed away on March 13, 2006, in her home in San Mateo, California. She was 47. Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco.

She is said to have died peacefully in her sleep. Some rumor that she died after a bout of seizure.

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