Breaking Bad star Mark Margolis dies after short illness

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Mark Margolis died on Thursday aged 83 following a short illness.It was confirmed that the Breaking Bad and Scarface star had sadly passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

His son announced the news. The star was well known for his role as Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and the show's spin-off series Better Call Saul.

His role in the Netflix hit Breaking Bad landed him an Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series back in 2012.

In 2016, he spoke about returning to play Hector again and his surprise at fans having taken a liking to him reports the Mirror."I was only coming onto Breaking Bad as far as I knew for that one episode, but there’s no accounting for taste, and the fans took a fancy to me,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Somebody asked me recently, ‘How did you manage to play such a horrible guy?’ and I said, ‘Have you talked to my friends?’ They’ll tell you I’m pretty miserable to begin with.”Mark was born in 1939 in Philadelphia to his mother (a decorator) and his father (a factory worker).He took his first acting class at age 14, he then went on to study drama with Stella Adler at The Actors Studio, unaware of what opportunities it would bring to himSpeaking of his time with Stellar, Mark told Eric Broadbent in an Inside the Gilliverse interview in December 2020: “My first impression of her was, ‘If God is a woman, this is him.' She was larger than life.