Actor Chance Perdomo, who gained fame for his work on the Netflix horror series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, passed away at the age of 27 in a motorbike accident, according to his publicist.
The publicist said in a statement, “His insatiable appetite for life was felt by all who knew him.” The statement obtained by the BBC’s US partner, CBS, went on to say, “His warmth will carry on in those who he loved dearest,” before requesting that Perdomo’s family be granted “privacy as they mourn the loss of their beloved son and brother”.
The British-American celebrity grew in Southampton and was born in Los Angeles.
For his performance in the BBC Three drama Killed by My Debt, he received a nomination for best actor at the 2019 Bafta TV awards.
In a statement, Gen V co-producers Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios recalled the actor as an “enthusiastic force of nature” and as “charming”. “Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense,” they said.
After graduating from high school, Perdomo studied law before making his acting debut in the CBBC comedy Hetty Feather in 2017. For his part in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, he was awarded 2019’s “Breakthrough Brits” by Bafta.
Perdomo told BBC Newsbeat that he had been “overwhelmed” by the response to Killed by My Debt, a docudrama based on the true tale of Jerome Rogers, a motorbike courier in London who found himself in heavy debt and took his own life, after receiving a nomination for best actor at the Bafta Awards that same year.
