Jay Benedict dead at 68 after Aliens star suffered complications ‘due to coronavirus’
His official website announced the news on Saturday, writing: "It is with profound sorrow that we must announce Jay’s death on the 4th of April due to complications arising from a COVID-19 infection."Jay Benedict alongside wife Abi TitmussThe star was famous for playing Russ Jordan in Aliens and also starred in The Dark Knight Rises.Jay's management wrote in their obituary: "Jay was born in California, but his family left the United States for Europe when he was a child.
"As a legacy of his itinerant childhood, he is English/French bilingual, and no slouch in Spanish and German, either. "People meeting him in 'real life' are surprised that he sounds more English than American – but so would you if you’d lived in Europe for 50-odd years . This doesn’t, however, prevent most casting agents from insisting that he play Americans – which he does happily and, not entirely surprisingly, like a native."
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