Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us star, dies aged 66

US histrion Ron Cephas Jones has died astatine the property of 66.

A seasoned signifier actor, helium was champion known for the bid This Is Us - his relation arsenic a long-lost begetter who finds redemption earned him 2 Emmy Awards.

Jones had a "long-standing pulmonary issue", his manager told US outlets. He had a treble lung transplant successful 2020, according to media reports.

His "kindness and bosom were felt by anyone who had the bully luck of knowing him", his manager said.

Jones's emotion for the signifier "was contiguous passim his full career, including his caller Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning show for his relation successful Clyde's connected Broadway", the connection added.

Academy Award-winning histrion Octavia Spencer, who played alongside Jones successful the bid Truth Be Told, was among the co-stars remembering the precocious actor.

She wrote connected Instagram that she was "heartbroken" by the news.

"Ron was an incredibly talented histrion and, astir importantly, a wonderfully benignant quality being," Spencer said. "Every time connected acceptable with Ron was a bully day."

Sterling K Brown - who played the lad of Jones's quality William Hill successful This Is US - paid his ain tribute connected Instagram.

"Life imitated creation today, and 1 of the astir fantastic radical the satellite has ever seen is nary longer with us," helium wrote.