{"id":207519,"date":"2020-04-06T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207519"},"modified":"2020-04-06T18:12:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:12:56","slug":"covid-19-another-hollywood-actor-dies-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207519","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Another Hollywood actor dies of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Another Hollywood actor, Jay Benedict has died of coronavirus.<br \/>\nThe Aliens actor, aged 68, died due to complications from COVID-19 infection.<br \/>\nDAILY POST recalls that Andrew Jack, \u2018Star Wars\u2019 actor also died after contracting Coronavirus.<br \/>\nBenedict\u2019s official website announced the tragic news of his death over the weekend.<br \/>\nThe post read: \u201cIt is with profound sorrow that we must announce Jay\u2019s death on the 4th of April due to complications arising from a COVID-19 infection.\u201d<br \/>\nThe actor is well known for his roles as Russ Jordan in \u201cAliens,\u201d in \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises,\u201d among others.<br \/>\nTCG Artists\u2019 Management, who represented Jay in a statement, expressed sadness over his death.<br \/>\nThe management wrote: \u2018It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear client Jay Benedict, who this afternoon lost his battle with COVID-19. Our thoughts are with his family.\u201d<br \/>\nThe deceased was born in Burbank, California on 11th April 1951, and was English\/French bilingual.<br \/>\nHe was married to actress Phoebe Scholfield and ran Sync or Swim, a company providing post-production ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) services to the film and television industry.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Hollywood actor, Jay Benedict has died of coronavirus. The Aliens actor, aged 68, died due to complications from COVID-19 infection. DAILY POST recalls that Andrew Jack, \u2018Star Wars\u2019 actor also died after contracting Coronavirus. Benedict\u2019s official website announced the tragic news of his death over the weekend. The post read: \u201cIt is with profound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,14052,7726,14643],"class_list":["post-207519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-corona-virus","tag-hollywood","tag-jay-benedict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}