The incredible and famous Actress, producer, and writer Yakira Chambers grew up on the Southside of Chicago. She graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science and started her working life in St. Louis as a software quality assurance manager. After completing a Master’s Degree in business administration, she moved to Los Angeles to find work in the entertainment industry. Chambers studied the Meisner technique for two years at the Baron Brown Studio in L.A. and then further honed her craft through the Midsummer in Oxford Program at Magdalen College. She made her screen debut in 2007. Five years later, she worked as an executive producer on a TV sitcom, M.O. Diaries (2012), in which she also starred as Michelle Obama.
Yakira Chambers dies: Cause of death revealed
The 42-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday and penned a moving tribute to Yakira Chambers, who reportedly died last week while out shopping with her mom in Newport Beach, California. Lachey, who portrays Jane Tennant, the first female Special Agent-in-Charge of the field office in Hawai’i, remembered Chambers as a talented writer who exquisitely elevated her character on the show.
It’s been a difficult week for our NCIS Hawai’i Ohana as we mourn the sudden loss of one of our talented writers, Yakira Chambers, Lachey began the caption in a post that included a photo of Chambers and another of an empty writer’s chair. All of the stories you see us bring to life on the screen started in the writing room and Yakira specifically wrote some of my favorite moments. She always wrote my character, Jane Tennant, as a strong badass woman and mother.
She continued, It was important to her and us. Her voice was powerful, and it will be missed greatly. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones who are currently figuring out life as this has left them in an unexpectedly precarious position. They’ve set up a GoFundMe page. Any small donation would be appreciated. I am still at a loss and have hugged my babies even tighter than usual. Yakira, I will miss you, we will miss you… Rest In Love My Beautiful Angel.
