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Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955, and he was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. He is a four-time Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominee and he is one actor who has been well known for the works he has done with director James Cameron.
He has been part of films such as The Terminator (1984), Aliens(1986), True Lies (1994) as well as Titanic (1997).
Bill Paxton has been involved in so many movies. He played a role in Near Dark(1987) and also played a role in Tombstone (1993).
He also played roles in Apollo 13(1995), Twister (1996), Mighty Joe Young(1998) as well as A Simple Plan which was produced and released in 1998. Weird Science(1985), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Nightcrawler (2014) are also movies Bill Paxton has featured in.
Bill Paxton was part of the HBO drama series titled Big Love. This series ran from 2006 till 2011.
For his appearance in the series, he received three nominations for the Golden Globe Awards.
Bill Paxton was also nominated for an Emmy Award and he got nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Randall McCoy in the History Channel mini series titled Hatfield’s & McCoys(2012).
Bill Paxton Cause of Death
Bill Paxton in 2017, disclosed that he had a damaged aortic heart valve due to rheumatic fever he suffered from when he was a kid.
He underwent an open-heart surgery on February 14, 2017, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The open-heart surgery was meant to repair his damaged valve and also correct an aortic aneurysm.
Unfortunately, just a day afterward, he had to undergo emergency surgery with respect to the repair of a damaged coronary artery. Quite sadly, his condition did not become much better and after 10 days, he had a fatal stroke.
He had a stroke on February 25, 2017, which resulted in his death. At the time of his death, he was 61 years old. He was cremated and his ashes were buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Hollywood Hills.
Bill Paxton And Marriage
Bill Paxton was married to Kelly Rowan. They got married in 1979 but a year later, they divorced.
Later in 1987, Bill Paxton met and married Louise Newbury. They met on the Number 37 bus in Twickenham, London. Louise Newbury was then a student.
Bill Paxton and Louise Newbury lived in Ojai, California and they had two children. James was their son who was born in 1994. James is also an actor. Lydia is the daughter of Bill Paxton and she was born in 1997.
Reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Paxton
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