De Amerikaanse acteur Mark Blum is op negenenzestigjarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van het coronavirus. Hij speelde onder meer mee in de films Desperately Seeking Susan en Crocodile Dundee.

Daarnaast was hij te zien in tal van tv-series, waaronder Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Frasier en The Sopranos. Recent dook hij op in het eerste seizoen van de Netflix-reeks You en HBO’s Succession.

Blum wordt op sociale media herdacht door zijn Desperately Seeking Susan-tegenspeelsters Madonna en Rosanna Arquette en een aantal andere collega’s en Hollywood-gezichten.

I Want to Acknowledge the Passing of a remarkable Human, fellow actor and friend Mark Blum, who succumbed to Coronavirus. This is really tragic and my heart goes out to him, his family and his loved ones. I remember him as funny warm, loving and… https://t.co/ipPj0eChmI pic.twitter.com/k3BgKZRRa9

— Madonna (@Madonna) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1243212844918689792?s=19

Mark Blum was consistently a great actor and a finer man. We met when I moved to NY & were briefly TV married in 1987. Last Xmas we caught up for over an hour at a party and he was still kind and hilariously sardonic. I adored him. My heart breaks for his beautiful wife Janet. pic.twitter.com/uRT136B3Ma

— Dana Delany (@DanaDelany) March 26, 2020

Oh god. Not Mark Blum. A great actor and a great human. Fuck.

— Mary McCormack (@marycmccormack) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/1243254534123556864?s=19

https://twitter.com/Winter/status/1243403172795666434?s=19

Bron: Variety