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Emmy Award-winning actor Ron Cephas Jones, best known for playing William Hale on the hit series This Is Us, has died at the age of 66. A spokesperson for the actor confirmed the news of his death to PEOPLE on Saturday, saying, “Dear beloved actor Ron Cephas Jones has passed away at the age of 66 due to a long term lung problem.”
The statement continued: “Throughout his career, anyone who has had the good fortune to know him has sensed his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart. He began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love of theater has been present throughout his career, including in his recent Tony Award-nominated performance and an award-winning performance. Drama Desk for his role in Clyde. Ron's inner beauty and spirit were evident to audiences through his multi-award-winning performance in This is Us." The statement concluded that, prior to his death, Jones was living with his daughter, Jasmine Cephas Jones.
Ron stivas jones struggles with illness.
The Law & Order: Organized Crime star revealed to The New York Times in 2021 that he privately battled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and received a double lung transplant at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center in 2020, where he was a patient for about two months. .
According to a June 2022 interview with Today, he said his performance in the Tony Award-nominated Clyde spurred him on to a speedy recovery, as he said, "I don't want to say miracle, but I was very lucky. I had great doctors. It's been a very difficult and difficult recovery." .
Ron Cephas Jones Career.
Jones is best known for his role as William Hale on This Is Us, the biological father of Randall Pearson (Sterling K. Brown), for which he won an Emmy Award in 2018 and 2020. In the same year 2020, his daughter Jasmine, 34, received her first Emmy Award. her, making them the first ever father-daughter winners in the same year.
In addition to This Is Us, Jones has appeared in several series, most notably Mr. Robot in 2015 and 2016, The Get Down in 2016, 2017, Luke Cage from 2016-2018, Looking For Alaska in 2019, and Truth Be Told from 2019-2023.
His film credits include He Got Game (1998), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Half Nelson (2006), Across the Universe (2007), Glass Chin (2014), The Holiday Calendar (2018), Dog Days (2018), and Dolemite Is My Name (2019).
In December, Deadline reported that Jones had been cast in the fourth installment of the historical anthology series Genius: MLK/X. Jones will play Elijah Muhammad, the tough, confident and complex leader, and mentor to Malcolm X.
