Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner, Christina Sandera, dies aged 61

Christina Sandera, the longtime associate of Oscar-winning actor and director Clint Eastwood, has died. She was 61.

Eastwood, 94, introduced her dying, saying in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter: “Christina was a stunning, caring lady, and I’ll miss her very a lot.”

No different details about her dying was launched.

Sandera and Eastwood had been relationship for a decade up till her dying. They reportedly met whereas she was working as a hostess on the actor’s Mission Ranch Resort and Restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The Million Greenback Child star is the previous mayor of the Northern California metropolis.

She was a longtime Carmel resident, whom Eastwood started relationship in 2014 following the divorce from his second spouse, TV information anchor Dina Eastwood. He was beforehand married to mannequin Maggie Johnson from 1953 to 1984.

Eastwood had different long-term relationships in between. He dated stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis, the late actor Sondra Locke (they have been home companions for 14 years and starred in 4 films collectively), flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves and actor Frances Fisher (they have been collectively for 5 years and co-starred in 4 movies).

Sandera and Eastwood remained quiet about their relationship. She did, nevertheless, attend the Oscars with Eastwood in 2015, when his conflict film American Sniper was in competition for six Oscars together with Greatest Image.

She additionally joined the Gran Torino actor on a number of purple carpets: Sully (2016), The Mule (2018), The 15:17 to Paris (2018) and Richard Jewell (2019).

Eastwood lately accomplished directing his fortieth film, Juror No 2. He first introduced the mission in April 2023.

Starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Zoey Deutsch and JK Simmons, Juror No 2 tells the story of a household man (Hoult), who, whereas serving as a juror in a high-profile homicide trial, discovers he could have performed a job within the sufferer’s dying.

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Juror No 2 marks Eastwood’s return to the director’s chair, following a three-year hiatus after his 2021 western thriller, Cry Macho, during which he additionally starred alongside Fernanda Urrejola, Natalia Traven and Dwight Yoakam.

Talking in a 2014 interview with The Related Press about his profession longevity, Eastwood mentioned: “There are such a lot of completely different tales to inform on the market.

“You may be 21 or 81. … In the event you inform your self, ‘I’m too outdated to try this’ – bulls***. You’re not too outdated to do something.”