Ronan Vibert – the actor finest identified for roles in movies and TV reveals like Saving Mr. Banks, The Borgias, The Man Who Crossed Hitler and The Scarlet Pimpernel – has died on the age of 58.
Vibert’s supervisor, Sharon Vitro, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the storied actor died in a hospital in Florida on Thursday (December 22), after battling “a short sickness”. It was not specified precisely what sort of sickness Vibert had.
A local of Cambridgeshire and the son of two artists (Dilys Jackson and David Vibert), the actor kickstarted his profession within the late Eighties, starring as Jim Watkins in On The Black Hill in 1987 – two years after he graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork in London.
Vibert spent a lot of the next decade hopping between tv initiatives, with appearances in reveals like Birds Of A Feather, Jeeves And Wooster, Lovejoy and Tales From The Crypt.
His first Hollywood manufacturing was 1998’s Story Of The Mummy – wherein he performed the function of Younger – and subsequent roles on the large display included the second Lara Croft: Tomb Raider movie, The Cradle Of Life (2003), in addition to The Final Seven (2010) and Dracula Untold (2014).
His remaining roles have been The Snowman and 6 Days, each thriller movies launched in 2017. The previous noticed Vibert star alongside Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson, whereas the latter put him in shut proximity to Jamie Bell and Mark Sturdy.
Off-screen, Vibert was a prolific stage actor – performing in productions for The Bush, Hampstead Theatre, The Gate and the Manchester Royal Trade, amongst others – and voiced the function of Peter Templer in BBC Radio 4’s 2008 manufacturing of A Dance To The Music Of Time.