Chance Perdomo takes with him
“his passion for the arts and his insatiable appetite for life.”
Saturday March 30, representatives of the American-British actor announced his death in a press release. The 27-year-old lost his life in a motorcycle accident that did not involve other people.
Chance Perdomo's career was just starting to take off after his roles in
The New Adventures of Sabrina
on Netflix from 2018 to 2020 and in
Gen V
, the spin-off of
The Boys
on Prime Video. In this series he played the role of Andre Anderson, a popular student at Godolkin University, a school reserved for superheroes.
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The producers of the series expressed their sorrow:
“we can’t really understand this
,” they said in a statement.
“To those of us who knew and worked with him, Chance was always charming and smiling, an enthusiastic force of nature, an incredibly talented performer and, more than anything else, a very kind and lovely person. Even writing about him in the past tense makes no sense. We are truly sorry to Chance’s family and mourn the loss of our friend and colleague.”
A BAFTA nomination
Chance Perdomo was born in Los Angeles and raised in Southampton, England. He had started his career by making appearances in
Hetty Feather
,
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
and
Inspector Barnaby
. His performance in 2018 in the BBC TV film
Killed by My Debt
allowed him to be nominated for Best Actor at the BAFTAs, the equivalent of the Césars in the United Kingdom. He will be more than ever revealed to the general public thanks to his performance in
The New Adventures of Sabrina
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
Chance Perdomo plays Ambrose Spellman, the sorcerer cousin of the heroine played by Kiernan Shipka. He is a real support for young Sabrina confronted with her new powers.
According to the American media The Wrap, production of season 2 of the series
Gen V
should be postponed due to the death of the actor.