R.I.P. Corey Parker: ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Friday the thirteenth: A New Starting’ Actor Lifeless at 60

Corey Parker, the actor recognized for roles on Will & Grace and within the slasher sequel Friday the thirteenth: A New Starting, has died. He was 60.

Parker died Thursday in Memphis, Tennessee following a most cancers prognosis, based on TMZ. It’s unclear what sort of most cancers he had.

In a press release, Parker’s sister Noelle mirrored on his life and profession.

“I consider he left this world weightless, at peace & surrounded with love,” she mentioned partially. “I’m writing to you, Corey, right here, immediately, as a result of that is how I… we… preserve you with us. I’ve recognized and cherished you for the previous 45 years, since our E.S.T days in NY as hungry wild artists. You have been a large a part of my inventive work, my inventive household, for many years. It meant every thing full circle if you joined our BGB neighborhood as a trainer, and we navigated the work collectively, all of us, all the time coming again to the reality and the potential of storytelling, of the actor’s limitless energy. You stored us all sincere and courageous and about artwork.

“And so we have fun your unbelievable expertise, your unparalleled ardour and pleasure within the work and in your loved ones, your big present for and devotion to instructing, your generosity, your love. All our lives are a lot richer for understanding you, and also you keep on in every of us, and in what you gifted and impressed in us… endlessly.

“Goodbye however not farewell, pricey buddy. Dwell and like to the fullest, fellow vacationers. Sending mild and like to Corey’s household and all those that knew and have been touched by his genius.”

Born July 8, 1965 in New York Metropolis, Parker was the son of actress Rochelle “Rocky” Parker and John David Haas. He started appearing early, showing in TV commercials at simply 4 years outdated earlier than later attending New York’s Excessive Faculty of Performing Arts.

Parker made his onscreen debut in a 1983 episode of Because the World Turns and went on to rack up a protracted checklist of TV appearances. Through the years, he popped up on exhibits together with The New Depart It to Beaver, thirtysomething, Flying Blind, Touched by an Angel, Love Boat: The Subsequent Wave, and Nashville.

He additionally had a recurring function on Will & Grace as Josh, one in all Grace’s boyfriends.

On the large display screen, Parker is probably greatest remembered for enjoying Pete — a greaser who meets a grisly destiny — within the 1985 horror sequel Friday the thirteenth: A New Starting. His different movie credit embody 9½ Weeks (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), Massive Man on Campus (1989), Encino Girl (1996), and The Rainmaker (1997).

Past appearing, Parker was additionally an teacher who labored with actors on tasks together with CMT’s Solar Data (2017) and the Disney+ Marvel sequence Ms. Marvel (2022).