“Dawson’s Creek” alum Obi Ndefo has died. He used to be 51.
The actor’s sister, Nkem Ndefo, introduced his passing in a Facebook post on Saturday.
“Heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother and knowing he’s finally at peace,” Nkem wrote.
She additionally shared a photograph of the siblings smiling in a selfie.
Nkem didn’t divulge Obi’s reason for loss of life.
Obi studied drama at Yale College. He made his performing debut in a 1995 episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” in step with his IMDb.
Over the later 25 years, Obi acted in diverse displays together with “The Jamie Foxx Show,” “Angel,” “Columbo,” “Crossing Jordan,” “NYPD Blue,” “The West Wing,” and “Stargate SG-1.”
He used to be very best recognized for enjoying Bodie Wells in “Dawson’s Creek” from 1998 to 2002.
Bodie is a chef in Capeside who companions with Dawson Leery’s (James Van Der Beek) mother, Gale Leery (Mary-Margaret Humes), on the eating place Leery’s Unutilized Fish. He’s in a courting with Bessie Potter (Nina Repeta).
Humes, 70, paid tribute to Obi on Instagram Sunday following the inside track of his loss of life.
“These words don’t come easy 💔,” she wrote. “It’s hard for me to conceive that you have left us, my dear friend. You always were and always will be a bright shining light. What an example of pure unfiltered love and tenacity you set as you faced life’s challenges of recent.”
“I will cherish all of our messages of love and support to each other over the past few years,” the actress added. “Rest in peace sweet warrior.”
Humes’ tribute featured a behind-the-scenes video of Obi at the all set of The WB teenager drama line.
4 years sooner than his loss of life, Obi misplaced each his legs then being clash by way of a automotive era popping out of a grocery store in Los Angeles
The past due celebrity used to be loading his automotive when an SUV clash him and severed his proper leg. He needed to get his left leg amputated when he used to be dropped at the sanatorium, in step with the LA Times.
His surgeon, Dr. Milton Tiny, referred to as his survival “a miracle.”
Obi informed the LA Occasions: “I couldn’t reside on this international with out changing into form of like an Olympic athlete of sure issues, — of goodwill and of condition — as a result of there’s no alternative selection for me. So there’s a form of rigor to me, and I believe, ‘OK my legs are severed. I don’t know the way to try this, however I know the way to try this.’ “
A GoFundMe page for Obi then the collision raised over $287,000. It coated the prices of his prosthetic legs and extra.
