Name of Obligation and One Life to Stay actor Kamar De Los Reyes is being remembered by Hollywood following information of the actor’s dying on Christmas Eve at 56 following a most cancers analysis.
Reyes’ dying was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday by a household spokesperson. The late actor shared two youngsters together with his spouse and fellow performer Sherri Saum, who co-starred with Reyes on ABC’s long-running cleaning soap One Life to Stay.
The Locke & Key and The Fosters star posted a tribute to her late husband and fellow actor on Tuesday on her Instagram, writing “Of The Kings.”
Past portraying Antonio Vega within the daytime drama, the Puerto Rican expertise was greatest identified for his voice work in Activision Blizzard’s Name of Obligation online game franchise, voicing arms vendor Raul Menendez, in 2012’s Name of Obligation: Black Ops II, earlier than reprising the position for Name of Obligation: Black Ops IV and Name of Obligation: Vanguard.
De Los Reyes had lately shot a task for Hulu’s not-yet-released Sterling Okay. Brown-starrer, Washington Black, and had a big half in Marvel’s upcoming Daredevil collection, alongside common TV roles in Valley of the Dolls, Sleepy Hole, and most lately All-American, which he was nonetheless engaged on on the time of this dying.
In a press release supplied to The Hollywood Reporter, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll mentioned she and the collection’ crew “are completely devastated on the lack of Kamar.”
“He was such a beloved member of our All American household,” she continued. “He introduced a lot love, gentle and pleasure to the set day by day, even throughout his ultimate days. We’re so grateful for each second he spent with us. Our hearts and honest condolences are with Sherri, Caylen, Michael, John and the remainder of Kamar’s household. Thanks for sharing him so generously with us and with the remainder of the world. He really was a present. One we’ll cherish ceaselessly.”
Clifton Campbell, co-showrunner for the ultimate season of Fox’s supernatural drama Sleepy Hole, which featured De Los Reyes within the position of Jobe, referred to as the late actor “a shiny gentle and true collaborator.”
“Kamar was a gifted and beneficiant actor, pushed by his ardour for all times, and was a buddy and inspiration to everybody on the set of Sleepy Hole,” Campbell continued. “A shiny gentle and true collaborator, he by no means stopped believing within the energy of story to alter the world. As an advocate and proud son of his native Puerto Rico, he was additionally a fighter for human rights, and for the dignity of all. Our hearts exit to his stunning household throughout the time of nice loss and disappointment.”
All through his profession, the late performer would seem in smaller bits like The Rookie, Touched by an Angel, ER and Fairly Little Liars, together with large display roles as Watergate burglar Eugenio Martínez in the 1994 Oliver Stone drama Nixon, and as Tomas in Lisa France’s Love & Suicide, launched in 2005 and shot clandestinely in Cuba whereas the principals have been attending the Havana Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Nevertheless, he was most likely greatest identified by American audiences for the cleaning soap One Life to Stay, which aired on ABC for greater than 40 years. He would first seem in a handful of episodes in 1995 earlier than working into 2003 as a daily presence because the cop Antonio Vega.
Amongst his former co-stars saying goodbye was actress and producer Tika Sumpter, who appeared on One Life to Stay between 2005 and 2010. She thanked the late actor on X, the platform previously often known as Twitter, for making her “first set expertise memorable and trustworthy,” earlier than including, “relaxation in paradise pricey Kamar” and sending her “huge like to his spouse Sherri and all who beloved him. #OLTL”
Sean Ringgold, who portrayed Shaun and wrote a prolonged message on Monday to the late actor, shared his “disbelief” concerning the dying of his former colleague and buddy. The 2 met on the cleaning soap — Ringgold’s first community job — earlier than the late actor would ask Ringgold to “present safety at his marriage ceremony” and take one in every of his sons “snowboarding at Camelback Mountain.”
“How do I summarize 20 plus years of friendship and help right into a single submit,” Ringgold wrote. “From day one he welcomed me with open arms. Working with him on digital camera was all the time a implausible expertise. I used to be Blessed that our relationship went past the studio. Numerous barbecues in his yard, steak dinners and we all the time completed the evening with an amazing cigar. This man would encourage and encourage me once I was feeling down or getting my enamel kicked in by the enterprise which occurs occasionally.”
“Kamar might be missed however will all the time dwell in my coronary heart,” he continued. “I really like you Brother, till we meet once more.”
Brooklyn 9-9 actress and former co-star Melissa Fumero re-shared a video made by De Los Reyes to Ringgold to her Instagram story, with the caption, “We love you Kamar.”
Bree Williamson, who portrayed Jessica on the collection, wrote in her personal remembrance that she was “heartbroken” over De Los Reyes’ passing. “Wanting again on my days [on the soap], there are few reminiscences wherein Kamar shouldn’t be current. He was an necessary a part of my life for near 10 years. Then [the show] ended, and all of us went our separate methods. However once I would see Kamar out on this planet, it was as if no time had handed — kinda like household, our little One Life to Stay household.”
“It’s extremely unhappy to know that I’ll by no means be working into this excellent man once more,” she added. “Goodbye, Kamar. You’re beloved.”
“I admired him — it was inconceivable to not,” she continued. “And it wasn’t solely that he was muy guapo, pals. Take it from me, the person was a mensch.”
Beth Ann Bonner who starred on One Life to Stay as Talia earlier than showing on All My Youngsters, posted Tuesday that she was “so grateful for the time I shared with Kamar at OLTL. I used to be such a child & he taught me an amazing deal concerning the business & about Life. Kamar had a lot ardour. His premature passing is actually heartbreaking & my sincerest condolences exit to his stunning spouse & household.”
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