Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, dies at 78

The New Zealand actor Sam Neill has died at 78 , his family said in a statement posted to his social media accounts on Monday. He died in Sydney; the family described the death as sudden and unexpected and said he had remained cancer-free, having been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in 2023.

Neill built a career spanning more than four decades, with lead and supporting roles in Jurassic Park, Jane Campion’s The Piano, The Hunt for Red October, Peaky Blinders and In the Mouth of Madness. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called him “one of the greats” who brought “New Zealand stories to the world,” and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would be “much mourned and long remembered.”

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