Actor Probability Perdomo, the Los Angeles-born star of “Gen V” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” died in a motorbike crash, his representatives mentioned Saturday. He was 27.
“His ardour for the humanities and insatiable urge for food for all times was felt by all who knew him, and his heat will keep it up in those that he beloved dearest,” Perdomo’s representatives mentioned in a press release. “We ask to please respect the household’s want for privateness as they mourn the lack of their beloved son and brother.”
There have been no different automobiles concerned within the incident, which occurred Friday, his representatives advised The Instances. They didn’t disclose additional particulars in regards to the crash, together with its location.
“We will’t fairly wrap our heads round this,” the producers of the collection “Gen V” mentioned in a press release. “For these of us who knew him and labored with him, Probability was all the time charming and smiling, an enthusiastic pressure of nature, an extremely gifted performer, and greater than the rest, only a very variety, beautiful individual. Even writing about him prior to now tense doesn’t make sense.”
Most just lately, Perdomo performed Andre Anderson on the Amazon Prime superhero collection, which premiered in September. Manufacturing on the second season shall be postponed on account of the actor’s demise, the studio mentioned.
“Your complete Gen V household is devastated by the sudden passing of Probability Perdomo,” Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Photos Tv mentioned in a press release.
Born in Los Angeles in 1996, Perdomo was raised in Southampton, England. A childhood fascination with the younger performers on youngsters’s tv led him to resolve early on a profession in performing, in keeping with the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts.
“After I was about two years outdated, I advised Mum I wish to be two issues,” Perdomo advised BAFTA in 2019. “I mentioned, ‘I wish to be the primary Black president of the US, and I wish to be on ‘Barney.’ ”
Perdomo briefly studied regulation earlier than being supplied a job on the BBC collection “Hetty Feather” in 2017. He acquired a BAFTA nomination for finest actor within the 2018 BBC movie “Killed by My Debt,” and was honored with BAFTA’s “Breakthrough Brit” award in 2019 for his position within the Netflix collection “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
In a video produced for his “Breakthrough Brit” recognition, Perdomo spoke in regards to the energy of artwork and performing to result in change. “There’s no level in simply ranting at somebody,” he mentioned. “However in the event you can join with them emotionally and have them suppose exterior their peripheral imaginative and prescient to some place else, then that may change views and hopefully result in extra of a everlasting change.”
