It’s a truly sad time in the Whedonverse – beloved Angel actor Andy Hallett died of heart failure on March 29 in L.A. He was just 33.
Hallett played the friendly crooner-demon Lorne for four years on the Joss Whedon show Angel but shortly after the show ended he was diagnosed with congestive heart disease, which limited his acting and performing abilities. Lorne, a.k.a. “The Host,” was a demon who could read people when they sang karaoke and was one of the most beloved characters on the show — who could forget the trip the gang took to the demon dimension Pylea to visit Lorne’s family? (We kind of love Angel, and Lorne and the Deathwok Clan were some of our favorite parts of the show.) Hallett’s passing, sadly, is not the first death within the cast of the series — during the first season, actor Glenn Quinn died of a drug overdose.
Hallett died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in L.A. and will be buried in Cape Cod, MA.
