Mark Margolis, finest identified for enjoying drug runner Hector Salamanca on Breaking Dangerous, and its prequel Higher Name Saul, has died on the age of 83.
He handed away on August 3 after a brief sickness at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York Metropolis, together with his spouse Jacqueline and son Morgan at his bedside.
Robert Kolker of Crimson Letter Leisure, his supervisor since 2007, stated in a press release, “He was certainly one of a sort. We gained’t see his likes once more. He was a treasured shopper and a lifelong good friend. I used to be fortunate to know him.”
Mark Margolis was born in 1939 and studied drama with Stella Adler on the Actors Studio. His first position was an uncredited one in a non-performing minor position within the pornographic function in 1976, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, adopted by the TV film The Different Aspect of Victory the identical 12 months. His first outstanding movie position was in Scarface in 1983 because the cold-blooded Alberto the Shadow, who tried to make Tony Montana (Al Pacino) homicide a journalist in addition to his spouse and kids.
His first TV position got here in an episode of Kojak in 1977. He then recurred on the Eighties’ The Equalizer as a hotwired operative who helped Robert McCall (Edward Woodward). On Oz (1997-2003), he performed mob boss Antonio Nappa. It was in 2009 that he started recurring as Hector, a once-feared Mexican cartel boss rendered mute and nearly immobile by a debilitating stroke and used his forefinger to ring a bell on his wheelchair to speak, on Breaking Dangerous. He was nominated for an Emmy for the position for Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Sequence in 2012.
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Margolis additionally collaborated a number of instances with Darren Aronofsky, beginning with 1998’s Pi because the mentor to Sean Gullette’s paranoid quantity theorist, in addition to a pawnbroker in 2000’s Requiem for a Dream, a priest (written particularly for him) in 2006’s The Fountain, and Mickey Rourke‘s sleazy grocery store boss in 2008’s The Wrestler.
Margolis’ quite a few different TV credit included Your Honor, Prodigal Son, Snowpiercer, The Blacklist, The Affair, Gotham, American Horror Story, and Individual of Curiosity.
Margolis is survived by his spouse Jacqueline, his son Morgan and his spouse Heide, his grandsons (Ben, Aidan, and Henry), and his brother Jerome and his spouse Ann. The household suggests donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Analysis Basis in lieu of flowers.
