Adan Canto, the Mexican singer and actor finest identified for his roles in X-Males: Days Of Future Previous and Agent Recreation in addition to the TV collection The Cleansing Girl, has died. He was 42.
Publicist Jennifer Allen, advised The Related Press Canto died of appendiceal most cancers and had opted to maintain his prognosis personal.
“Adan had a depth of spirit that few actually knew. Those that glimpsed it had been modified perpetually,” Allen wrote in an announcement. “He can be vastly missed by so many.”
Born in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico and raised in Texas, Canto started his profession at age 16, when he left house for Mexico Metropolis to work as a singer-songwriter. He then started pursuing performing, making his TV debut on the 2009 Mexican collection Estado De Gracia. His American debut got here later, on Kevin Williamson’s 2013 Fox drama collection The Following, which starred Kevin Bacon.
His notable roles embrace Vice President-elect Aaron Shore on Designated Survivor, Colombian politician Rodrigo Lara Bonilla on Narcos, and the mutant Sunspot in X-Males: Days Of Future Previous. Canto starred in Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised, in addition to Agent Recreation.
He additionally directed his first brief movie in 2014 and a second one in 2020, a provocative Western starring Theo Rossi.
Canto was starring as Armand Morales on Fox’s The Cleansing Girl on the time of his loss of life, which is presently filming its third season. He was unable to take part within the manufacturing resulting from his sickness however hoped to rejoin later within the season.
Kiefer Sutherland, who starred alongside Canto on Designated Survivor, shared a tribute on his Instagram web page.