Game of Thrones and EastEnders actor Darren Kent has died aged 36.
Kent’s agency Carey Dodd Associates tweeted the news earlier this afternoon, stating that Kent had “passed away peacefully on Friday” surrounded by his parents and best friend.
“It is with deep sadness we have to tell you that our dear friend and client Darren Kent passed away peacefully on Friday,” said the agency. “His parents and best friend by his side. Our thoughts and love are with his family in this difficult time. Rip my friend.”
Born in Essex, Kent started picking up acting roles in the noughties. He went on to feature in a number of major hits including Game of Thrones as Goatherd and BBC soap EastEnders. Other credits included Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the BBC adaptation of Les Misérables.
Kent, who had a rare skin disorder, won Best Actor at the 2012 Van...
Kent’s agency Carey Dodd Associates tweeted the news earlier this afternoon, stating that Kent had “passed away peacefully on Friday” surrounded by his parents and best friend.
“It is with deep sadness we have to tell you that our dear friend and client Darren Kent passed away peacefully on Friday,” said the agency. “His parents and best friend by his side. Our thoughts and love are with his family in this difficult time. Rip my friend.”
Born in Essex, Kent started picking up acting roles in the noughties. He went on to feature in a number of major hits including Game of Thrones as Goatherd and BBC soap EastEnders. Other credits included Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the BBC adaptation of Les Misérables.
Kent, who had a rare skin disorder, won Best Actor at the 2012 Van...
- 8/15/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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Alan Bridges, who has died aged 86, was a leading director during the glory days of the BBC, from the mid-60s to the early 70s. Today, whenever media pundits analyse the history of television drama, they wax lyrical about The Wednesday Play and its successor Play for Today, bemoaning the virtual disappearance of the single play.
By the time Bridges started working in the Wednesday Play slot, he was already one of the BBC's most experienced TV directors – he had directed excellent 10-part adaptations of two 19th-century classics, Great Expectations and Les Misérables (both in 1967) – but he relished the "right to fail" ethos at the BBC, enjoying working with exciting contemporary writers.
While continuing to have a distinguished television career into the 80s, adeptly moving from the popular to the experimental, from the modern to the classical,...
Alan Bridges, who has died aged 86, was a leading director during the glory days of the BBC, from the mid-60s to the early 70s. Today, whenever media pundits analyse the history of television drama, they wax lyrical about The Wednesday Play and its successor Play for Today, bemoaning the virtual disappearance of the single play.
By the time Bridges started working in the Wednesday Play slot, he was already one of the BBC's most experienced TV directors – he had directed excellent 10-part adaptations of two 19th-century classics, Great Expectations and Les Misérables (both in 1967) – but he relished the "right to fail" ethos at the BBC, enjoying working with exciting contemporary writers.
While continuing to have a distinguished television career into the 80s, adeptly moving from the popular to the experimental, from the modern to the classical,...
- 1/29/2014
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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