Nick Cordero, Tony-Nominated Broadway Actor, Dies at 41 of

Nick Cordero, a Tony Award-nominated actor who starred in such Broadway hits as “Rock of Ages,” “Waitress” and “A Bronx Tale: A Musical,” has died because of problems from coronavirus. He was 41.

“God has another angel in heaven now. My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth,” his spouse, Amanda Kloots wrote in an Instagram submit Sunday evening.”

“I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere. My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him. Nick was such a bright light. He was everyone’s friend, loved to listen, help and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband. Elvis and I will miss him in everything we do, everyday.”

Cordero, who earned a Tony nomination in 2004 for enjoying a mob enforcer within the musical “Bullets Over Broadway,” had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for over two months after exhibiting signs of COVID-19.

Kloots mentioned in an Instagram story that one in all Cordero’s legs needed to be amputated after a life assist machine and blood thinners brought on problems with the limb. He was later given a brief pacemaker to maintain his coronary heart charge regular. This previous Thursday, she informed “CBS This Morning’s” Gayle King that their “ultimate, ultimate goal” would that he could be a candidate for a double lung transplant.

Kloots has given frequent updates and mentioned that medical doctors noticed “some success” from repositioning Cordero and after present process a tracheostomy, however she was additionally informed a number of occasions by medical doctors that he “won’t make it.”

“I’ve been told a couple times that he won’t make it. I’ve been told to say goodbye. I’ve been told it would take a miracle,” Kloots emotionally wrote in an Instagram submit. “Well, I have faith. Faith that is small as a mustard seed sometimes, but that is all you need sometimes.”

Cordero made his Broadway debut in 2012 within the long-running musical hit “Rock of Ages” earlier than incomes a Tony nomination in 2014 for the short-lived musical primarily based on Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” within the function of an arts-loving gangster performed by Chazz Palminteri on movie.

After portraying an abusive husband within the Sara Bareilles-scored musical “Waitress,” Cordero took on one other function originated by Chazz Palminteri on movie, the hero of Palminteri’s “A Bronx Tale: The Musical,” which opened in…