Tributes are being paid to Baby Driver actor Hudson Meek, who died aged 16 after falling from a transferring car.
Meek performed Young Baby within the 2017 motion movie directed by Edgar Wright and starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Bernthal. He fell out of a transferring car in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama on December 19, and died two days later.
Meek was greatest recognized for enjoying a youthful model of Elgort’s titular character in Baby Driver, however he additionally appeared in 2014’s The Santa Con and episodes of the MacGyver reboot. Meek supplied the voice for Young Yasuo in a 2020 cinematic for Riot Games’ League of Legends, and appeared in various adverts.
An obituary revealed that a few of the motion pictures and TV reveals Meek labored on will likely be launched in 2025. “He completely cherished spending time on set and having the prospect to study the names and tales of each member of the solid and crew,” the obituary reads.
In a Facebook post, his mom Lani Wells Meek stated: “His 16 years on this earth have been far too quick, however he completed a lot and considerably impacted everybody he met.” Birmingham performing arts academy Acting Out stated in an announcement: “We are all devastated on the lack of one in every of AOA’s first and brightest stars. May you shine without end Hud. You will likely be deeply missed.”
A Celebration of Life service will likely be live-streamed Saturday, December 28 at 11.30am Central time.
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