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'Never Known A Kinder Person': Actor Nick Cordero Dies Of COVID-19 At 41

The Broadway actor was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Bullets Over Broadway. Cordero had been working on a production of Rock of Ages when he developed symptoms of pneumonia.
Nick Cordero attends the 68th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2014 in New York City.

Tall and lanky, Nick Cordero played a variety of tough guys on Broadway – a 1920s gangster in , an abusive husband in , and a mobster who takes a young boy under his wing in the musical version of Chazz Palmantieri's. He died on Sunday at the age of 41, his wife, Amanda Kloots,

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