Devin Harjes, an actor seen on TV in Manifest and Boardwalk Empire, has died. He was 41.
Harjes died from an sickness on Tuesday, Might 27, at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York Metropolis, in response to The Hollywood Reporter. His demise — which made headlines on Saturday — comes after he obtained a most cancers prognosis in February.
The actor was born on July 29, 1983, in Lubbock, Texas, and studied performing in faculty, in response to THR. After transferring to New York Metropolis, he labored on pupil and impartial movies and off-Broadway reveals.
Harjes bought a break in tv by enjoying real-life boxer Jack Dempsey in two episodes of Boardwalk Empire in 2011. Then got here guest-starring one-offs in Blue Bloods, Orange Is the New Black, Elementary, and FBI. In superhero-adjacent roles, Harjes performed Rikers Island nurse Oscar in Daredevil and financial institution guard Clyde in Gotham.
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In his longest-running function, Harjes portrayed Pete Baylor, pictured above, within the second and third seasons of Manifest. Pete was one of many so-called “Meth Heads” whose storyline “[helped] Ben [Josh Dallas] and Michaela [Melissa Roxburgh] and others unpack, from a mythological standpoint, what they as passengers returned for and the way they might survive,” as showrunner Jeff Rake defined to TV Insider.
The function received Harjes plaudits from viewers. “Devin Harjes is an unbelievable actor,” @_Bellabyrinth wrote on X. “Caught one in every of his scenes in @NBCManifest proper now, and wow! He’s superb! I haven’t seen him in anything but. Off to IMDb…”
And @RenewManifest wrote, “Devin Harjes did an incredible job enjoying Pete! I can really feel Pete’s ache by means of my display screen…”
Harjes’ movie credit, in the meantime, embody 2012’s The Forest Is Pink and Boyz of Summer time, and he shared the display screen with Nicholas Hoult and Sarah Paulson within the 2017 J.D. Salinger biopic Insurgent within the Rye.
Harjes is survived by his mother and father, Randy and Rosanne Harjes; his sister, Trish Harjes, and her husband, Justin Kelley; his nephews, Tristin and Sawyer Kelley; his nieces, Rory and Charly Kelley; his ex-wife, fellow Gotham star Shiva Shobitha; and his cat, Maude, THR experiences.