Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning Broadway actor, has died. He was 48.
Creel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2017 for Hello, Dolly! and had also previously been nominated for his roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Hair.
The New York Times reports that his death was caused by a metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, which the actor learned he had in July.
His death was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, via publicist Matt Polk.
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