Coronavirus: Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who had leg amputated, dead at 41 from Covid-19 complications
- Nick Cordero entered emergency room on March 30 and had a succession of health setbacks, including mini-strokes, blood clots and septic infection
- Actor had amassed fans worldwide through his wife’s chronicling of his coronavirus battle
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Broadway and TV actor Nick Cordero, who spent months in intensive care being treated for the coronavirus and lost his leg from complications, died Sunday, his wife said.
He was 41 years old.
“My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth,” Amanda Kloots wrote on Instagram.
“I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere. My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him.”
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“Elvis and I will miss him in everything we do, everyday,” she added, referring to the couple’s one-year-old son.
Kloots had documented her husband’s struggle with the coronavirus on social media. She said he had battled the disease for 95 days.
Cordero tested positive for Covid-19 in March and was hospitalised at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, where he was placed in the intensive care unit. During his hospital stay, he was given a temporary pacemaker, underwent a leg amputation and was put into a medically induced coma. He also had additional complications, including lung infections and septic shock.
Cordero had been comatose for months but regained consciousness in early May, able to move and communicate through only his eyes.
According to Kloots, he had lost 29kg from muscle atrophy and was still unable to move or talk by mid-June.
He had been awaiting a double lung transplant when he died.
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Cordero was known for his roles in the musicals Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway for which he was nominated for a Tony award.
He had amassed fans worldwide through his wife’s chronicling of his battle with the coronavirus.
Fans and former cast mates circulated a #wakeupnick hashtag on social media in support of Cordero, posting video clips of themselves dancing and singing.
The virus has sickened other Broadway veterans, including the actors Danny Burstein, Tony Shalhoub, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gavin Creel, Aaron Tveit and Laura Bell Bundy as well as composer David Bryan. It has also claimed the life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
