Actress and political activist Shirley Temple has died in her California home at age 85, media outlets have reported.
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Temple started acting at age three and soon became one of the most recognisable child actors in the world.
She appeared in more than 50 films, including Poor Little Rich Girl, The Littlest Rebel (1936), Heidi (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1946), Fort Apache (1948) and The Story of Seabiscuit (1949).
Shirley Temple, 1936. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple wears a grass skirt and plays a ukulele in a promotional portrait for the musical 'Captain January' in 1936. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple, 1935. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple, circa 1944. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple reading some of her fanmail in 1943. Picture: Getty Images
In 1944, Shirley Temple, 17, married Sgt John Agar Jnr, an army aviation engineer, in a Wiltshire Methodist church. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple accepts the Life Achievement Award from presenter Jamie Lee Curtis onstage during the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple speaks in front of a poster of Richard Nixon at a Republican Party election press conference at the Cafe Royal in London in September 1968. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple in Rome in 1968. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple sitting by her Christmas tree with presents from 20th Century Fox and a decorated Christmas tree in 1936. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple wears a fairy godmother costume in a promotional portrait for her television series of dramatized fairy tales, 'Shirley Temple's Storybook'. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple and her first husband John Agar play with their infant daughter, Linda Susan, in the living room of their home in 1948. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple on set circa 1936. Picture: Getty Images
The trademark curls of Shirley Temple. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple at home in Atherton, California, with her daughter Lori in 1957. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple at home in Atherton, California, with her son Charles in 1957. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple and her second husband, Charles Black, pose together at the premiere of 'Roman Holiday' in 1953. Picture: Getty Images
Then-President Bill Clinton and wife Hilary applaud Shirley Temple, a recipient of one of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. Picture: Getty Images
A Christmas card or promotional portrait of child actress Shirley Temple in the 1930s. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple was presented with a Life Achievement Award at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006. Picture: Getty Images
Shirley Temple was presented with a Life Achievement Award at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006. Picture: Getty Images
