(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 04 - American actor Tom Sizemore, best known for his roles in Saving Private Ryan and The Relic, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 61: the announcement was made in a statement on his manager, Charles Lago, as reported by the Guardian.
The actor suffered a severe brain aneurysm last month and on Tuesday Lago announced that the family was making "end of life" decisions.
"It is with great sadness and grief that I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore... passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph's Hospital in Burbank. His brother Paul and his twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were by his side" , the manager said yesterday.
Sizemore, born in Detroit in 1961, has played the tough guy in various blockbuster action films since the 1990s.
These include Heat, Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in The Cold Eye of the Witness and in 2017 he had appeared in the television series Twin Peaks.
The actor had been arrested several times for drug use and in 2007 he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine.
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