Hollywood star Shirley Temple has died aged 85, her family said on Tuesday morning February 11th 2014.
Born Shirley Jane Temple on April 23, 1928, her varied career took her from being a film and television actress, singer, dancer to being appointed US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
She sat on the boards of corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation.
In 1967, she ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress, and was appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana in 1974 and to Czechoslovakia in 1989. In 1988, she published her autobiography, Child Star. Temple is the recipient of awards and honors including Kennedy Center Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
She is No. 18 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest female American screen legends of all time.
She is survived by her daughter, Linda Susan Agar, and son, Charles Alden Black, Jr.
