--- title: Glee Cast Gathers At Lake Where Naya Rivera Disappeared description: The body of actress Naya Rivera was found in Lake Piru in Southern California canonical: https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-07-14T14:34:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:30.473Z og:title: Glee Cast Gathers At Lake Where Naya Rivera Disappeared og:description: The body of the actress was found in Lake Piru in Southern California og:url: https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte782137c93082984/698a1046b3fce3d8c10c6eee/Naya-Rivera-Glee-Cast.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Naya Rivera Glee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Glee Cast Gathers At Lake Where Naya Rivera Disappeared twitter:description: The body of the actress was found in Lake Piru in Southern California twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte782137c93082984/698a1046b3fce3d8c10c6eee/Naya-Rivera-Glee-Cast.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Glee_ Cast Gathers At Lake in the Wake of Naya Rivera's Death > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 14, 2020 2:34 PM UTC  Naya Rivera attends the LA premiere of Roadside Attraction's "Judy" at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Naya Rivera attends the LA premiere of Roadside Attraction's "Judy" at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Emma McIntyre—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 14, 2020 2:34 PM UTC The cast of _Glee_ gathered on the shores of Lake Piru to mourn for their friend and former castmate [Naya Rivera](https://time.com/5864644/police-naya-rivera-missing-lake-piru/). [Rivera’s body was found](https://time.com/5865102/naya-rivera-dead/) at Lake Piru in California on Monday. The actress was reported missing on Wednesday, July 8 after the actor’s four-year old son, Josey, was found alone in a boat on the lake. A search and rescue operation was launched, and after days of searching the lake [Rivera](https://time.com/4464233/naya/)’s body was found by Ventura County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue dive team, victim of an apparent drowning accident. She was 33. While family, friends, and former castmates were holding out hope for Rivera’s safe return, when the police announced a body had been found, Rivera’s castmates gathered at the lake, [according to _Variety_](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/naya-rivera-dead-drowning-glee-cast-hold-hands-photo-1234705247/). A photographer captured a powerful image of the actors holding hands on the shore of Lake Piru, offering a moving and poignant moment of support. > [](https://twitter.com/NineDaves/status/1282757488803282945) Rivera played Santana Lopez on the Fox musical-comedy _Glee_ for six years, turning what was meant to be a minor character into a full-time cast member and an LGBTQ icon. Her body was found seven years after the death of another _Glee_ cast member, [Cory Monteith](https://healthland.time.com/2013/07/17/viewpoint-how-the-drug-treatment-system-failed-cory-monteith/), who played Finn Hudson. [He died in 2013](https://entertainment.time.com/2013/07/14/rip-cory-monteith-of-glee-dead-at-31/) after suffering an accidental overdose. The show’s cast took to social media to pay tribute to Rivera: > [](https://twitter.com/janemarielynch/status/1282727321888190464) > [](https://twitter.com/druidDUDE/status/1282836070799794177) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/"},"headline":"Glee Cast Gathers At Lake in the Wake of Naya Rivera's Death","datePublished":"2020-07-14T14:34:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:30.473Z","description":"The body of the actress was found in Lake Piru in Southern California","url":"https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte782137c93082984/698a1046b3fce3d8c10c6eee/Naya-Rivera-Glee-Cast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte782137c93082984/698a1046b3fce3d8c10c6eee/Naya-Rivera-Glee-Cast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Naya Rivera Glee","caption":"Naya Rivera Glee","creditText":"Emma McIntyre—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5866683/naya-rivera-glee/","name":"Glee Cast Gathers At Lake in the Wake of Naya Rivera's Death"}}]}] ```