Ron Cephas Jones, who received two Emmy Awards for visitor appearances on This Is Us, has handed away on the age of 66.
Ron Cephas Jones, who performed William Hill — the organic father of Sterling Ok. Brown’s Randall — on This Is Us, incomes two Emmy Awards, has handed away. The actor was 66, succumbing to a “long-standing pulmonary problem.”
Over the course of his appearances on This Is Us, Ron Cephas Jones earned 4 consecutive Emmy nominations, with one for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection and three for Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Collection. He is only one of 4 actors to win the latter a number of instances.
Sterling Ok. Brown, who had a few of This Is Us’ greatest scenes with Ron Cephas Jones, paid tribute to the late actor on Instagram whereas additionally nodding to his character, who handed away from most cancers. “Life imitated artwork as we speak, and probably the most fantastic individuals the world has ever seen is not with us. @cephasjaz has handed away, and the world is rather less shiny. Brother, you’re beloved. And you can be missed. Hold them laughing within the subsequent part of existence, and I’ll see you after I get there.”
Ron Cephas Jones’ onscreen profession started within the mid-‘90s, happening the seem in early turns for administrators like Spike Lee and Woody Allen, along with bits on main programming reminiscent of Legislation & Order and NYPD Blue. But it surely wasn’t till the center a part of final decade that Jones actually broke out. Along with his terrific work on This Is Us, Jones additionally performed fsociety member Romero on Mr. Robotic, Kipling patriarch Winston on Netflix’s The Get Down, Luke Cage pal Bobby Fish, and Octavia Spencer’s father on Apple TV+’s Fact Be Informed, along with showing on miniseries Lisey’s Story. Current movie credit embody Canine Days (2018), Netflix seasonal rom-com The Vacation Calendar (additionally 2018) and Dolemite Is My Title (2019). Appropriately sufficient, certainly one of his final tv credit was on spinoff sequence Legislation & Order: Organized Crime, bringing his profession full circle.
A press release from a consultant for Ron Cephas Jones’ learn, partly: “All through the course of his profession, his heat, magnificence, generosity, kindness and coronary heart had been felt by anybody who had the great fortune of figuring out him…He started his profession on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was current all through his complete profession, together with his latest Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award profitable efficiency for his function in Clyde’s on Broadway.”
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