His manager has released a statement confirming the death of Tom Sizemore, 61, the actor best known for his roles in Saving Private Ryan and The Relic.
Thomas Edward Sizemore, an actor, “died away quietly in his sleep tonight at St. Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” his agent said. Sizemore’s agent Charles Lago reported that the actor was surrounded by family members, including his brother Paul and twin sons Jayden and Jagger, both 17 years old.
After experiencing a brain aneurysm on February 18, Sizemore has remained in a coma in the intensive care unit at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Los Angeles.
On February 28th, Lago reported that the actor’s family had been advised by physicians that “no further hope” remained.
The physicians have advised his family that there is no longer any chance for recovery, and they have recommended an end-of-life choice,” Lago stated at the time. The family is making final decisions at this time.
Sizemore, who was born in Detroit in 1961, shot to fame in the 1990s and 2000s for his tough-guy performances in war and action flicks. After appearing as minor law enforcement figures in Point Break and True Romance, he went on to have a major part as a detective in the ultraviolent movie Natural Born Killers and a member of a robbery gang in the film Heat.
In the horror film The Relic, in which a savage creature embarks on a killing rampage in a museum, Sizemore played the starring part of another police officer, the investigator. When he was cast as Tom Hanks’ second-in-command in Saving Private Ryan, he had to bail on Terrence Malick’s war drama The Thin Red Line.
The films Black Hawk Down, Splinter, and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House were among his latter credits. Recent television appearances for Sizemore include recurring parts on Robbery Homicide Division, Dr. Vegas, and the new version of Hawaii Five-0. In the 2017 third season of Twin Peaks, he played the role of insurance agent Anthony Sinclair.
A reputation for violence and substance misuse developed around Sizemore as a result of his troubled personal life. After being found guilty of domestic violence and criminal threats in 2003 against his then-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss, he was sentenced to six months in prison. He was found guilty of domestic abuse again in 2017 and received three years’ probation. His drug habit led to many arrests, the most recent of which resulted in a 16-month prison term for meth possession in 2007.
Between 1996 and 1999, Sizemore was married to Maeve Quinlan; the couple had two children together.
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