Aliens actor Jay Benedict has tragically passed away after suffering complications from the coronavirus. He was 68. His official website announced: “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 was known for playing Russ Jordan in James Cameron’s 1986 release Aliens, sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien. He also appeared in detective drama Foyle’s War, playing John Kieffer, a US Army officer and friend of Christopher Foyle. He had recently starred in Call The Midwife and Downton Abbey.
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His 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 (some of them very odd indeed). 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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Benedict is survived by his wife Phoebe Scholfield and their two sons, Leopold and Freddie, as well as his daughter from his previous relationship.
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