Jonathan Pienaar, South African star of “Blood Diamond”, dies at 63

Jonathan Pienaar, the prolific South African star of movies like Blood Diamond and sequence like Cape City, has died on the age 63.

Pienaar's ex-wife, the dancer Rosana Maya, confirmed his demise on Nov. 10 with a put up to her official Fb. Over a photograph depicting Pienaar clad in leather-based in medium close-up, Maya wrote, "Most lovely man, distinctive soul… like your wolves, you gave a lot for thus little… the world is a lesser place with out you in it, my unhappiness too deep. Fly with angels my love."

Maya confirmed to the South African information website News24 on the identical day that Pienaar died at his dwelling within the Auckland Park neighborhood of Johannesburg. She famous that the actor's well being had been "deteriorating" as of late, stating that his demise was the results of "coronary heart failure."

"I had a nurse right here taking care of him, and he or she mentioned that she went in to see him and he mentioned, 'The place am I?' and fell asleep once more. When the nurse went to provide him his medicine, he handed on," she shared.

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Pienaar was born on Sept. 16, 1962. After learning drama at and studied drama at Pretoria's Tshwane College of Know-how, beforehand often known as Technikon Pretoria, he leaped from native stage roles to nationwide display roles, to turns in worldwide movies and sequence.

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Pienaar's highest profile position got here in 2006, when he was forged as a cameraman in Edward Zwick's searing drama Blood Diamond. The chance allowed Pienaar to play reverse a few of the best actors of his technology, together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connelly.

However to South Africans, Pienaar was finest recognized for roles in sequence resembling 2009's Hopeville and the Common Hospital-esque cleaning soap Binnelanders, wherein Pienaar starred for a season as Leon. He additionally appeared in Anthony Fabian's TIFF-premiering biopic Pores and skin, acclaimed Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche's 2010 movie Black Venus, which competed on the Venice Movie Competition, and the drama sequence Cape City.

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