Tony Todd, jarumin fina-finan makabarta na horar da ya shahara a Hollywood, ya mutu a ranar Laraba, Novemba 6, 2024, a gida sa a Marina Del Rey, California. Ya kuwa da shekaru 69. Wakilinsa ya tabbatar da mutuwarsa ga PEOPLE.
Todd ya fito a cikin fina-finan da shirye-shirye na talabijin sama da 100, kuma ya zama abin dogaro a fagen horar da makabarta. Ya taka rawar gani a fina-finan kama ‘Candyman’ na shekarar 1992, ‘The Crow‘, da jerin fina-finan ‘Final Destination’, inda ya taka rawar William Bludworth. Ya kuma fito a cikin sabon bugu na ‘Candyman’ na shekarar 2021 wanda Nia DaCosta ya ba da umarni da Jordan Peele ya rubuta.
Virginia Madsen, wacce ta taka rawa tare da Todd a cikin ‘Candyman’ na asali, ta bayar da gudummawar ta ta kaiwa Todd a Instagram. ‘My beloved. May you rest in power sweet to the sweet in heaven,’ ta rubuta. ‘The great actor Tony Todd has left us and now is an angel. As he was in life. More later but I can’t right now. I love you.’
Todd, wanda aka haifa a Washington, D.C., ya fara aikinsa na fina-finan a shekarar 1986, inda ya fito a ‘Sleepwalk’ da ‘Platoon’ na Oliver Stone. A talabijin, Todd ya yi aiki a kowane fanni, ciki har da rawar sa a ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ a matsayin Klingon Kurn, da rawar sa a ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ a matsayin adult Jake Sisko.
Todd ya yi karatu a University of Connecticut sannan ya koma theater a Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute. Ya kuma fito a cikin wasan kwa gani na kwa gani a Broadway. Todd ya yi aiki a cikin shirye-shirye da dama da yawa na talabijin, ciki har da ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’, ‘Boston Public’, ‘The District’, ’24’, ‘Splatter’, ‘Chuck’, ‘Transformers Prime’, ‘The Young and the Restless’, ‘Scream: The TV Series’, da ‘The Flash’.
Todd ya barke aikinsa har zuwa lokacin da ya mutu, inda ya samu aikin shirye-shirye da dama da yawa a cikin shiri, ciki har da fina-finan horar ‘Werewolf Game’ da ‘The Witching Hour’. Ya bari ‘ya biyu, Alex da Ariana.
