R.I.P. Darren Kent, actor from Game Of Thrones and Dungeons & Dragons
Kent, who played one of the reanimated corpses in Dungeons & Dragons, was 36
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Character actor Darren Kent, best known for popping up on Game Of Thrones and in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, has died. This comes from Variety, which says the news was reported by his talent agency, Carey Dodd Associates, which tweeted the following message about Kent: “It is with deep sadness we have to tell you that our dear friend and client Darren Kent passed away peacefully on Friday. His parents and best friend by his side. Our thoughts and love are with his family in this difficult time. RIP my friend.” A cause of death has not been shared publicly. Kent was 36.
Other than an appearance on the original British Shameless, Kent’s first acting roles where in horror movies Mirrors and Asylum Blackout, and in 2011 he starred in the short film Sunny Boy as a boy who—like Kent himself—lived with a rare skin disorder (Variety says Kent also had osteoporosis and arthritis). He later had small roles in Snow White And The Huntsman and Game Of Thrones, playing a man herding goats in Essos in one episode.
Kent had a recurring role as The Scholar on Syfy’s grindhouse-inspired Blood Drive, which starred Alan Ritchson as a cop in a dystopian United States where survivors race cars that run on blood, and he also appeared in two episodes of EastEnders. He filmed appearances in a number of projects before his death that have been released yet, but one of his final roles was in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, playing one of the (many) slain soldiers reanimated by the heroes as they try to track down a mystical artifact (one of the best scenes in any movie released this year). Kent specifically played the first corpse reanimated, the one who answers “yes” to a bunch of accidental questions before the spell reviving him wears off.
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That’s truly the best picture you could find of the man?
I’ll be honest; I don’t think one exists because he was never big enough to have a headshot taken… (There is one on IMDB, wouldn’t recognize this man in anything)I’m not sure how this became news, but some algorithm picked it up this morning, and now every news site is talking about how the “goatherder” from GOT died…
Certainly one of the more recognizable. It’s not like any of us knew who he was before this.
We can only hope Disney managed to scan his corpse so that he may go on to have a rich, fulfilling acting career and find the fame he was previously denied.
Certainly one of the more recognizable. It’s not like any of us knew who he was before this.
I mean he was in full corpse makeup in his scene in D&D it was probably the better of the two. Plus shows and movies are so dark these days you have to do a lot of editing to make stuff actually visible. The ex-gawker sites don’t even have proper editorial staff, they’re probably not going to have someone available to ‘fix’ photos the way GIF editors do
He had a unique look and build that lent itself to being put in monster and corpse makeup a lot. So not a lot of still from romantic comedies and such
R.I.P.xand agree, what an awful photograph to use at the top of the article. yikes.
I actually watched that episode of GOT today. RIP.
Dead Man Appeared Onscreen Occasionally, Will Likely Be Missed
His role in D&D was really funny
#DiedSuddenly – at age 36. Wonder if the cause of death was Racism, White Supremacy, or Climate Change? Given the number of excess deaths in the past two years, maybe it’s water contamination.Shirley it wasn’t CV19 vax side effect related.
Just watched D&D last week because of how well reviewed it was. Pretty darn funny, and a surprising amount of heart.