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Canadian actor Chris Gauthier, best known for his roles in Once Upon a Time, Eureka, and Smallville has died at the age of 48, representatives confirmed.
TriStar Appearances’ Chad Colvin posted tribute in a statement to Facebook on Sunday, writing that when Gauthier’s wife “reached out to me yesterday with the news, I wept tears of disbelief for hours. It’s taken me til now to fully mentally and emotionally steel myself to write this.”
Tristar Appearances/Event Horizon Talent later confirmed the news to Fox News Digital in a statement, writing Gauthier passed away on Friday morning. A cause of death was not announced but his management said “he died from an unspecified short illness,” according to Deadline.