After quietly fighting the disease - and filming numerous movies, including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - he died in August 2020 at the age of 43. I do… One year after his passing, the memory of remains this alive in me.”īoseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016. “I did not know that I could miss both his laughter and his silence in equal measure,” Lupita Nyong’o, who worked with Boseman on Marvel’s Black Panther, wrote via Instagram in August 2021. Stars including Chadwick Boseman, Willie Garson and Norm Macdonald all fought private battles with cancer. … Robin was brilliant.” The Good Will Hunting actor was 63 when he passed away, leaving a hole in many people’s hearts. The Mamma Mia! actor added: “His humanity was so far-reaching, and joy of people, and love of life, bountiful.
Doubtfire costar nearly five years after Williams died by suicide in August 2014. “Oh, Robin, still, his passing still hurts deeply,” Pierce Brosnan told Esquire in May 2019 about his former Mrs. Talents like Amy Winehouse, Prince, Whitney Houston, Cory Monteith and Robin Williams all left this world abruptly and without warning.
The loss of a Hollywood great is never easy, but in certain cases, a star’s passing comes long before it was their time to go.
