Actor Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park, dies
Actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.
A post made to his social media account on Monday afternoon said he had died in Sydney “surrounded by his family”.
“The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free,” the statement, posted to Instagram, said. […]
In 2023, Neill revealed he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, in early 2022.
He entered remission later that year after a rare anti-cancer drug worked, but needed ongoing infusion treatment.
He announced in April he was cancer-free.
The actor was also knighted in 2022, becoming Sir Sam Neill.
“I said I didn’t want the title for 10 or 12 years,” he said in 2023.
“Then when I thought I was dying a couple of years ago I thought, ‘Oh bugger it, I may as well go out with the title,’ so I changed my mind.”
A damn shame. I’ve seen far more people grieve for him than I have for that Lindsey Graham fellow; Sam seems to have been one of the good guys of his industry, and that’s always a bad thing to lose. I’m guessing that cancer and the treatment for same did him no favours and probably took a few years off him, but at least he was free of it before the end.
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