迈克尔·克拉克·邓肯因心脏病去世

Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a death row inmate in the 1999 drama “The Green Mile,” died on Monday, less than eight weeks after suffering a heart attack, a spokeswoman said. He was 54.

Duncan died in Los Angeles, his fiance, the reality television star Omarosa Manigault, said in a statement through Duncan’s publicist, Joy Fehily.

With a commanding screen presence, deep voice and hulking* 1.96-meter frame, Duncan once dug ditches* for a gas company in his native Chicago, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor.

In the 1999 prison drama “The Green Mile” with Tom Hanks, Duncan played a death row inmate with magical powers who is put to death for two murders he did not commit. The role won him a supporting actor Oscar nomination.

He starred this year in several episodes of the Fox crime drama “The Finder.”

(SD-Agencies)