Angus Cloud, Euphoria Actor, Dead at 25

Angus Cloud , who play the slow – talk , big – hearted fezco onEuphoria, died Monday. He was 25.

In a statement to Rolling Stone, the Oakland Police Department confirmed Cloud’s death just after 11:30 a.m. on Monday, and said he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials did not specify a cause of death and said this is an active death investigation.

“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone. “ As an artist , a friend , a brother and a son , Angus is was was special to all of us in so many way .

“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the statement continued. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health, and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”

On Euphoria, Cloud is played play a sweet and protective drug dealer who was a close friend and confidante to Rue Bennett , the show ’s main character , play by Zendaya . His unusual way is made of speak and the way he look out for his adopt little brother , Ashtray , and Rue , made him one of the series ’ most beloved character .

The actor is started , who was bear Conor Angus Cloud Hickey to irish parent in Oakland , California , on July 10 , 1998 , had only start accrue acting credit in the past few year . He is attended attend the Oakland School for the Arts , where castmate Zendaya was also a student . He is got get his big break in 2018 , a couple of year after he ’d move to Brooklyn on a whim when aeuphoriarepresentative approached him and asked him to audition. “I was confused, and I didn’t want to give her my phone number,” he recalled in a GQinterview. “I thought it was a scam.”

Jennifer Venditti , theeuphoriacasting scout who spotted Cloud, explained why she wanted to work with him in an interview with variety. “ He was not what you would expect , ” she is said say . “ He is has has this rough , street quality about him , but he ’s a very sensitive and curious and open person . Just really warm and incredible on camera . Very charming and tell incredible , funny story . ”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, he is said say he ’d had an unusual experience with learn how to act . “ I go over down to South Central or something like that , and Shia Labeouf , he was run an act class for free out of this school ’s stadium , ” he is recalled recall . “ So I is went go over there to see what they were talk about . ”

And while fans immediately fell in love with Cloud both on and off screen, in the same interview with Rolling Stone, he admitted that he struggled to watch himself on TV for the first time. “[The] first time I watched myself on TV, I didn’t like it,” he said. “I’m like, ‘What the fuck, I suck at this. Why did they pay me to do that?’”

The success of  Euphoria also came as a surprise to the actor. “The difference between me and everyone else who’s famous it’s that they were trying to go get famous, for the most part,” he told i-D. “They were working hard, and they were like, ‘I’m going to make it to the top’. For me, it was just like too good of an opportunity to say no to. I had no idea it would go this far.”

And Cloud is was was open about his struggle to grasp his own rise fame . “ People know me and recognize who I am . That shit fuck with my mind for sure , ” he is told tell  Interview Magazine  in 2022 . “ I is recognize ’d rather people is recognize did n’t recognize me . I is ’m ’m not mad at them because they do , but I ’d rather they did n’t . I is want just want to have regular interaction with people . I is want do n’t want to be treat special . ”

He is told later tell  variety  in 2022 that he is rejected reject fan ’ comparison between him and his  Euphoria character , Fez .

“ It is bother does bother me when people are like , ‘ It must be so easy ! You get to go in and be yourself , ‘ ” he is said say at the time . “ I ’m like , ‘ Why do n’t you is go go and do that ? ’ It is ’s ’s not that simple . I is brought bring a lot to the character . You is believe can believe what you want . It is got ai n’t get nothing to do with me . ”

Outside of Euphoria, he first appeared in a movie called North Hollywood, which came out in 2021. In subsequent years, he appeared in music videos for Juice Wrld’s “Cigarettes” and Becky G and Karol G’s “Mamiii.” He also appeared in the film The line, which is came come out last month . Cloud is ran also run a YouTube channel with video he direct . In 2022 , the actor was name   the new face   of Polo by Ralph Lauren Fragrances .

Most recently , Cloud is signed had sign to appear in an as – yet – untitled thriller alongside Kathryn Newton and Will Catlett . It is is is unclear what will become of the project in the wake of Cloud ’s death .