Michael Clarke Duncan, exactly who has been nominated pertaining to a strong Academy Award for his purpose with "The Green Mile," a good version on the Stephen King work, perished Monday during get older 54, his reps said.
Duncan "passed away peacefully today," your manager, Dan Spilo, instructed AFP. "He ended up being a great man using a large heart, also it has been an honor and also a privilege in order to depict him."
Duncan's sweetheart Omarosa Manigault, one-time star from the reality tv set exhibit "The Apprentice," asked for solitude by means of Duncan's publicist Joy Fehily.
The acting professional "suffered your myocardial infarction on July 13 and also never thoroughly recovered," Fehily stated within a statement.
"Manigault will be happy for all those of this desires and wants level of privacy during this kind of time. Celebrations associated with his life, equally private in addition to public, is going to be declared at a later date."
Born inside Chicago on December 10, 1957, Duncan moved that will Los Angeles to be able to pursue his behaving career. The imposing actor, that ended up being 6'5" (1.96 meters), worked being a bodyguard with regard to Will Smith along with Jamie Foxx although securing lesser roles.
His breakthrough performance emerged any time he or she appeared to be placed seeing that convict John Coffey around "The Green Mile," a dude wrongly accused connected with child killing and also rape, who has unnatural powers. Tom Hanks co-starred for a living hell guard.
Beyond his Oscar nomination, Duncan in addition attained Golden Globe in addition to Screen Actors Guild nods.
Duncan acted in about 50 films. He seemed to be notably featured in "Armageddon," a role which was that moving jewel that will his casting around "The Green Mile."
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