{"id":160523,"date":"2025-11-03T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:08:15","slug":"actor-in-bond-action-films-dies-at-age-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160523\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor in Bond, action films dies at age 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001409\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tch\u00e9ky Karyo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tch\u00e9ky Karyo<\/a>, who appeared in numerous major films, including \u201cGoldenEye,\u201d \u201cLa Femme Nikita\u201d and \u201cBad Boys,\u201d has died at the age of 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/01\/tcheky-karyo-dead-goldeneye-actor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TMZ reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TMZ reports<\/a> that Karyo\u2019s family members say the actor died Friday of cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to his IMDb.com biography, Karyo was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 4, 1953. He grew up in Paris, France, where he studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre. He eventually became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company and the National Theatre of Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are so sad to learn of the passing of Tch\u00e9ky Karyo,\u201d Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2dd7yyly9o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tells the BBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tells the BBC<\/a>. \u201cHe was a truly brilliant and much loved actor and he will be fondly remembered by BBC viewers for his roles in \u2018The Missing,\u2019 \u2018Baptiste\u2019 and most recently \u2018Boat Story.\u2019 Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among his many roles, Karyo was a villain opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in \u201cBad Boys\u201d and also was an adversary of Jet Li in \u201cKiss of the Dragon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/obituaries-people-news\/tcheky-karyo-dead-the-missing-addicted-to-love-bad-boys-1236567591\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Variety reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Variety reports<\/a>. He also played a French officer in the Mel Gibson film \u201cThe Patriot\u201d and a Russian defense minister in the Bond film \u201cGoldenEye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/nation\/2025\/11\/actor-in-bond-action-films-dies-at-age-72.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cleveland.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, who appeared in numerous major films, including \u201cGoldenEye,\u201d \u201cLa Femme Nikita\u201d and \u201cBad Boys,\u201d has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,93204,18,117,2220,19,17,11384,93202,93203,93201,11935,93200,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-160523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cyrano-theatre","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-istanbul","16":"tag-la-femme-nikita","17":"tag-lindsay-salt","18":"tag-national-theatre-of-strasbourg","19":"tag-paris","20":"tag-tcheky-karyo","21":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115486163649504338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}