India, July 21 -- Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actor who made her breakthrough with her role as Jia in Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, has died. She was 18. The news of her demise was announced by her father, Joshua Hottle, via a Facebook livestream using American Sign Language. He also confirmed her death to TMZ, saying that she died in a car accident in Maryland. (Also read: Prakash Raj says a movement like freedom struggle is brewing again with CJP protest: 'I will stand by them')

Texas School for the Deaf, where Hottle was a senior, also confirmed the news in a statement on social media. Hottle and her father are both deaf and come from a multi-generational deaf family.

"It is with profound sadness that we share the...