Actor Chance Perdomo, who gained notoriety 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 British-American celebrity grew raised in Southampton after being born in Los Angeles.
Because of his performance in the BBC Three drama Killed by My Debt, he received a nomination for best actor at the 2019 Bafta TV awards.
The publicist said in a statement, “His insatiable appetite for life was felt by all who knew him.”
“His warmth will carry on in those who he loved dearest,” the statement seen by the BBC’s US partner, CBS, added, before asking that Perdomo’s family be given “privacy as they mourn the loss of their beloved son and brother”.
The location of the accident and its cause have not yet been made public. According to CBS, the spokesperson stated that “no other individuals were involved”.
Perdomo portrayed Andre Anderson in the Amazon Prime superhero series Gen V in addition to portraying warlock Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix thriller.
In a statement, Gen V co-producers Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios recalled the actor as a “enthusiastic force of nature” and as “charming”.
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“Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense,” they replied.
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 one of 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.
A local publication claimed that Perdomo had visited his old Southampton secondary school to speak to Year 10 students ahead of the 2019 Bafta awards event in May.
“He told them that his acting passion, not his fame, brought him to this point,” Redbridge Community School headteacher Jason Ashley said to the Southern Daily Echo at the time. “He spoke to them about working hard and he told them.”
