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Prior to his death on Sunday, Ray Stevenson was rushed to the hospital from the set of a movie he recently began filming in Italy, sources tell PEOPLE.
The actor, known for movies likeDivergentandThor,died on Sunday, just days before what would have been his 59th birthday on Thursday. At the time of his death, Stevenson was on the Italian island of Ischia, where he was shooting the movieCassino in Ischia.
A rep for Stevenson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Spokespersons for Paramount Global Content Distribution, the production company behind the upcoming movie, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
No further information about Stevenson’s cause of death is available at this time.
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However," Deadline added in its summary, “unresolved struggles with his family resurface and he is forced to reconcile all he left behind on his road to fame.”
Stevenson is set to appear in theupcomingStar WarsDisney+ seriesAshokawith Rosario Dawson, which debuts in August. His upcoming movieGateway to the Westhad entered post-production at the time of his death, according toIMDb.
In the year prior to Stevenson’s death, the actor starred as the antagonist Governor Buxton in the crossover 2022 Bollywood hitRRR, as well as in the filmsMemoryandAccident Man: Hitman’sHoliday.
source: people.com
