Ronan Vibert, an actor identified for the fact-based roles of P.L. Travers’ writer Diarmuid Russell in Saving Mr. Banks, Giovanni Sforza on Showtime’s The Borgias and Perry Cline on Historical past’s Hatfields & McCoys, has died. He was 58.
Vibert died Thursday at a Florida hospital after a short sickness, his supervisor Sharon Vitro advised The Hollywood Reporter. The precise nature of the sickness was not specified.
He additionally recurred in tv sequence together with Carnival Row, Penny Dreadful, Rome and Waking the Lifeless, along with plenty of stage and movie credit.
Born in Cambridgeshire, England, on Feb. 23, 1964, Vibert lived in Penarth, South Wales, till attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork. Outstanding early roles included three episodes on 1989’s acclaimed British miniseries Traffik, which served as the idea for Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning 2000 movie Visitors.
Vibert scored plenty of roles within the Nineteen Nineties on British tv applications, together with episodes of Birds of a Feather, Lovejoy, The Buccaneers and Gimme Gimme Gimme. He then went on to seem in such movies as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) reverse John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, the Kirsten Dunst-starring The Cat’s Meow (2001) from director Peter Bogdanovich, Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning The Pianist (2002), the Angelina Jolie-led sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) and the James Franco car Tristan + Isolde (2006).
In John Lee Hancock’s Oscar-nominated Disney Studios drama Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Vibert performed the writer to Emma Thompson’s Mary Poppins creator Travers as a part of a solid that additionally included Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti and Bradley Whitford.
His most up-to-date function movie roles got here with two 2017 titles: the Michael Fassbender-led thriller The Snowman and the historic motion flick 6 Days with Jamie Bell and Mark Sturdy. Different TV credit included The Alienist, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, NCIS: Los Angeles, Poirot, The Invoice and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
