Oscar-winning actor William Damage, star of Kiss of the Spider Girl and Physique Warmth, has died aged 71.
Deadline reported an announcement by Damage’s son Will: “It's with nice unhappiness that the Damage household mourns the passing of William Damage, beloved father and Oscar profitable actor, on March 13, 2022, one week earlier than his 72nd birthday. He died peacefully, amongst household, of pure causes.” Selection stated that a household buddy confirmed the information.
Damage gained one of the best actor Oscar in 1986 for Kiss of the Spider Girl, during which he had performed a homosexual man who shares a cell with a with a political prisoner in Brazil. He acquired additional Oscar nominations for greatest actor for Youngsters of a Lesser God and Broadcast Information, and for greatest supporting actor for A Historical past of Violence.
Born in 1950, Damage studied theology at college however turned to appearing and enrolled on the Juilliard faculty in 1972. After a collection of stage roles, he gained his first main movie position within the Ken Russell physique horror movie Altered States, which was swiftly adopted by the then-sensational erotic thriller Physique Warmth, during which he starred reverse Kathleen Turner. Physique Warmth’s notoriety made his title, and Damage turned a serious star of the Eighties. He featured in a outstanding position within the ensemble comedy drama The Massive Chill, and the spy thriller Gorky Park, and was then forged in Kiss of the Spider Girl by director Héctor Babenco.
Damage would make a sensational success of the position, during which he performed the drag-queen cellmate of Raul Julia’s leftist revolutionary, profitable one of the best actor award at Cannes in addition to one of the best actor Oscar. The next yr, he performed a trainer in Youngsters of a Lesser God, reverse Marlee Matlin (later his accomplice) who would go on to be the primary deaf winner of an appearing Oscar. In 1988 he made it three Oscar nominations in a row, for his position as a TV reporter in Broadcast Information.
Within the Nineteen Nineties, profitable roles appeared elusive; amongst others, largely with an arthouse bent, he was in Wim Wenders’ mammoth however disappointing Till the Finish of the World, Chantal Akerman’s A Sofa in New York, and the Carl Franklin-directed One True Factor. In 2005 he had an sudden success with an atypical position, crime boss Richie Cusack in David Cronenberg’s A Historical past of Violence, which garnered him one other Oscar nomination, for greatest supporting actor. Three years later, he made presumably an much more sudden entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking part in Basic Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, a job he would repeat in Captain America: Civil Struggle, Avengers: Infinity Struggle and Endgame, and Black Widow.
In 2009, Matlin printed a memoir during which she described bodily and emotional abuse by Damage throughout their relationship. Damage stated later: “I did and do apologise for any ache I triggered.”
Damage was married twice, to Mary Beth Damage from 1971 to 1982 and Heidi Henderson from 1989 to 1992. He additionally had high-profile relationships with Matlin, Sandra Jennings and Sandrine Bonnaire.
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