The actor suffered a brain aneurysm. Photo: Web.
American actor Tom Sizemore, known for his role in the movie “Saving Private Ryan” and with a life marked by drugs, has died at the age of 61, his agent announced Friday.
Source: AFP
The actor suffered a brain aneurysm in February and was taken offline on Friday of the device that helped him breathe.
A few days earlier, the doctors had come to the conclusion that Nothing could be done for him anymore, according to his agent Charles Lago.
“It is with great sadness and pain that I must announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (“Tom Sizemore”), passed away in a peaceful sleep at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank,” in California, his agent said in a statement.
“His brother Paul and his sons Jayden and Jagger (…) were by his side,” he added.
During his career, Sizemore worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but his most memorable role was as an American soldier in World War II in the war movie “Saving Private Ryan,” Directed by Steven Spielberg in 1998.
the film was Oscar nominee for Best Picture and its actors, including Tom Hanks and Matt Damonwere nominated for their joint performance for Best Cast by the Screen Actors Guild.
Born in Detroit in 1961, Sizemore worked as an actor in New York in the 1980s, and had his first notable role in Oliver Stone’s “Born on the 4th of July” (1989).
Throughout the 1990s he appeared in other films, including “True Romance”, written by Quentin Tarantino, or “Natural Born Killers”, also by Stone.
Sizemore suffered from drug dependency, including heroin and cocaine. In 2003 he was convicted of assaulting his then girlfriend and spent eight months in jail.
Drugs landed him in trouble with the law on several occasions in the following years, and cost him a new prison sentence.
Despite his personal problems, he continued to work and appeared in television series such as “Hawaii Five-O” (“Hawaii Five-0”) and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (“Law and order: unit of special victims”) .
