Fans of “Sex and the City” are mourning the death of Willie Garson, who portrayed Stanford Blatch, gay BFF of Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO hit.
TMZ was first to report that the fan-favourite actor passed away Tuesday at age 57, with Variety subsequently confirming the sad news; no cause of death had been revealed.
Garson’s friend, “Bosch” star Titus Welliver, broke the news on Twitter, sharing a photo of Garson. “There are no words,” he wrote in the caption. “Sex and the City” may have been a defining role for Garson, but it was far from his only work.
Other notable roles included shrewd con man Mozzie on “White Collar”, Gerald Hirsch in “Hawaii Five-0” and Henry Coffield on “NYPD Blue”.
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