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The This Is Us family has mislaid 1 of its astir cherished members. Ron Cephas Jones has died. “Beloved and award-winning histrion Ron Cephas Jones has passed distant astatine the property of 66 owed to a long-standing pulmonary issue. Throughout the people of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and bosom were felt by anyone who had the bully luck of knowing him,” a typical for the histrion confirmed to HollywoodLife connected August 19.
Ron Cephas Jones astatine the ‘This Is Us’ brunch successful 2019. (Broadimage/Shutterstock)
The connection continued, “He began his vocation astatine the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his emotion for the signifier was contiguous passim his full career, including his caller Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning show for his relation in Clyde’s connected Broadway. Ron’s inner-beauty and psyche was evident to the immense assemblage from his multi-Emmy award-winning show connected This is Us. He is survived by his girl Jasmine Cephas Jones.”
One of Ron’s astir notable roles came aboriginal successful his vocation erstwhile helium was formed arsenic William Hill successful the critically-acclaimed NBC bid This Is Us, which premiered successful 2016. William was the biologic begetter of Randall Pearson, played by Sterling K. Brown. For his astounding and moving This Is Us show done the seasons, Ron won 2 Emmys successful 2018 and 2020 for Outstanding Guest Actor successful a Drama Series.
“This Is Us was the show, aft 50-something years of being connected the boards and doing a small spot tv that lasted for the 6 seasons and it gave maine a vocation successful Los Angeles. It gave maine a accidental to amusement radical my level of work,” helium told TODAY successful 2022. “So, I’m getting enactment because of my enactment arsenic opposed to trying to toil. I’ve done that each those years successful New York. It’s the thought that my enactment aft each is perseverance… It took a small while, but it paid disconnected successful the end.”
In summation to This Is Us, Ron had besides appeared successful shows like Looking For Alaska, Truth Be Told, and Law & Order: Organized Crime. His latest onscreen show was successful the last play of Better Things successful 2022. Ron volition beryllium seen posthumously successful the upcoming miniseries Genius: MLK/X.
